GACE Special Education Language Arts and Social Science (744)
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10 sample questions for the GACE Special Education Language Arts and Social Science (744), with the correct answer and an explanation for each. No account needed. Try each one before you open the answer.
Sections covered on the exam: Writing Stage, Prompts, Credibility, Research Questions, Paraphrasing, Needed, Writing Process and Conventions, Confused Words, Modifiers, Agreement, Paragraph, Paragraph: Support, Paragraph: Unity, Paragraph: Main Idea, An Audience, Thesis Statement, Consistency, Primary Purpose, Text Features, Figurative Device, Scheme, Purpose of An Aside, Point of View, Conflict, Figurative Language, Genres, Appeals, United States and Georgia History, Transition For A Concession, Weakening An Argument, Function of A Sentence, Identifying Writing Purpose, Maintaining Formal Tone, Relevant Credible Evidence, Author'S Purpose, Audience, and Organization, Adding Sensory Language, Effective Opening Sentence, Connotation In Argument, Developing A Central Idea, Narrative Time Transition, Concluding With Reflection, Addressing An Opposing View, Evaluating Research Sources, Dialogue Reveals Character, Georgia State Seal, Georgia Constitution of 1777, Georgia At The 1787 Convention, Analyzing An 1861 Speech, Constitutional Argument, Georgia Agriculture, 1920S, Deal Farm Policy, Georgia Election Reform, School Desegregation In Georgia, Constitutional Principles, Reserved Powers, Removing Federal Officials, Of Government, Choosing Among Options, Global Interdependence, Historical, Political, and Economic Concepts, Primary and Secondary Sources, Hunters, Periods, U.S. and Georgia History, Language, Georgia, Migration, Protest, Events, Geography, Geography Concepts, Editing Priorities, Writing Process, Sources, Conflicting Sources, Practices, Semicolons, Dialogue, Events and Subjects, Homophones, Reference, Structure, Tense, Compound Subjects, Newsletter Draft, Complete Sentences, Paragraph: Topic Sentence, Paragraph: Irrelevant Detail, Paragraph: Strongest Evidence, The Occasion, Sentence and Thesis, And Viewpoint, Shift In Person, Informational Text Features, Controlling Device, In Poetry, Of Speech, Irony, Characterization, Personification, Time Devices, Text: Memos, Purpose, Audience, and Organization, Locating Sensory Details, Sequencing Narrative Events, Purpose of A Closing Line, Argumentative Writing Task, Objective Tone, Linking Evidence To Claim, Faulty Either-Or Reasoning, Transition In Informative Text, Writing An Arguable Claim, Precise Diction, Introducing A Central Idea, Rebutting An Objection, Showing Character Traits, Adapting Style For Audience, Judging Source Reliability, Cause-And-Effect Transition, National Motto, Georgia and Ratification, Georgia Lawmaking Process, War In Georgia, Georgia Politics In The 1930S, Transportation and Growth, Federal Voting Protections, Power of The Courts, Principle In Action, Shared Government Powers, Government Finance, Specialization and Trade, Productive Resources, Barriers, Formulating Research Questions, Analyzing Data Tables, Comparing Two Accounts, Period, Cultures.
Question 1 · Writing Stage
After finishing a first draft, a student moves two paragraphs into a more logical order, adds a statistic to support a claim, and deletes a paragraph that strays from the topic. Which stage of the writing process is the student working in?
Answer: A. Revising
Revising focuses on content and organization: reordering ideas, adding support, and cutting material that does not serve the purpose. Editing is the tempting choice, but editing addresses surface conventions such as spelling, punctuation, and capitalization rather than the substance or structure of the piece.
Question 2 · An Audience
A teacher is writing an email to the district superintendent requesting funds for classroom audiobooks. Which sentence is most appropriate for this audience and purpose?
Answer: D. I am requesting funds to purchase audiobooks that will give my students access to grade-level texts.
A request to a district administrator calls for a formal but clear register that states the request and its purpose directly. The sentence with "incumbent" and "avers" is formal, but its inflated wording obscures the request; the other two are too casual for a professional audience.
Question 3 · Author'S Purpose, Audience, and Organization
From a student's opinion essay: "If we let sixth graders use calculators in math class, soon they won't be able to add without a machine, and eventually no one in our town will be able to balance a budget." Which logical fallacy does this argument contain?
Answer: B. Slippery slope
The writer claims that one modest step will set off an unsupported chain of increasingly extreme consequences, which is a slippery slope. It is not a false dilemma, because the writer never presents only two possible choices.
Question 4 · Reserved Powers
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” — Tenth Amendment Which action is the best example of a power covered by this amendment?
Answer: A. Georgia setting certification requirements for public school teachers
Running public schools and licensing teachers is not delegated to the national government, so it is a reserved state power under federalism. Printing currency and making treaties are tempting because states once did both, but the Constitution expressly prohibits states from doing either, and declaring war is delegated to Congress.
Question 5 · U.S. and Georgia History
In June 1863, Union gunboats moved up the Combahee River in South Carolina. Using information gathered by scouts, the expedition avoided Confederate mines, destroyed plantations, and carried hundreds of enslaved people to freedom. A woman who had already guided many people north on the Underground Railroad helped plan and lead the raid. Which historical figure is described in this account?
Answer: A. Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman, famous as an Underground Railroad conductor, also served the Union army as a scout, spy, and nurse and helped lead the Combahee River Raid in 1863. Clara Barton is tempting because she served the Union during the war, but she was a battlefield nurse who later founded the American Red Cross, not a scout who led an armed raid.
Question 6 · Editing Priorities
A teacher notices that students stop after every sentence of their first drafts to fix spelling and then lose track of their ideas. Which guidance best reflects an effective writing process?
Answer: A. Get ideas down while drafting, and save spelling fixes for the editing stage.
Drafting is meant to capture and develop ideas, while editing is the later stage for correcting conventions such as spelling, so separating the two keeps attention on meaning first. Correcting every error immediately is the very habit causing the problem, because it interrupts the flow of ideas.
Question 7 · The Occasion
A principal must tell families that school will dismiss two hours early on Friday so that the power company can make repairs. Which form of writing best fits this purpose and occasion?
Answer: D. A short notice giving the date, the new dismissal time, and the reason
The purpose is to inform busy families of a schedule change, so a brief functional notice that puts the essential facts first is most effective. A narrative about the principal's morning might be accurate, but it buries the information families need to act on.
Question 8 · Faulty Either-Or Reasoning
From a student's speech: "Either the city builds a new sports stadium this year, or every business downtown will close." Which fallacy does this statement contain?
Answer: A. False dilemma
The speaker presents only two extreme outcomes and ignores other possibilities, such as other ways to support downtown businesses, which makes it a false dilemma. It is not a hasty generalization, because the speaker does not draw a broad conclusion from a few examples.
Question 9 · Government Finance
A Georgia county's board of commissioners wants to pay for a new courthouse by adding a one-cent special purpose local option sales tax (SPLOST) for a set number of years. What must happen before the tax can be collected?
Answer: C. County voters must approve it in a referendum
Under Georgia law, a SPLOST is proposed by local officials but must be approved by the county's voters in a referendum, and the revenue is limited to the listed projects and time period. The governor and Congress have no approval role in a local sales tax referendum.
Question 10 · U.S. and Georgia History
"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim." — speech delivered in Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852 Which abolitionist, who had escaped slavery and became a leading writer and orator, delivered this speech?
Answer: D. Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass, who escaped slavery in 1838, delivered this famous Fourth of July address in Rochester in 1852, contrasting the nation's celebration of liberty with the reality of slavery. William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips were leading abolitionist speakers, but neither had ever been enslaved.
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