We have compiled all the stories (and answers) of Reading Plus – Level K so you won’t have to waste your time searching elsewhere. This post is perfect for students who want to enhance their reading skills and foster a deeper understanding of various texts
Reading Plus Answers – Level K
Tweeting the News
Question 1: What is the central idea of this selection?
Answer: Journalists are concerned that new methods of reporting are becoming less standardized, and as a result, new information is not as accurate.
Question 2: In this selection, the author compares journalism to a watchdog. Why?
Answer: To provide the reader insight into what responsibilities reporters have
Question 3: Think about your answer to the previous question. Which sentence from the selection confirms why the author uses this analogy?
Answer: In other words, reporters hold government and businesses accountable for their actions.
Question 4: How does the author support the assertion that Twitter is causing more harm than good when it comes to journalism?
Answer: By describing the disadvantages of accepting unsubstantiated reporting as professional journalism
Question 5: Choose two sentences from this excerpt that reveal two disadvantages of using Twitter as a resource for the news.
Answer 1: “Depending on the person the reader is following–a professional journalist, a friend, someone unknown to them-judging the authenticity and accuracy of a particular Tweet might be difficult.”
Answer 2: “However, Twitter can also be used to spread unconfirmed, incomplete, or inaccurate information.”
Question 6: Read this excerpt. The tone can be best described as?
Answer: cautionary.
Question 7: Read this excerpt. What two roles does the media have?
Answer 1: Keep the public informed
Answer 2: Prevent people from breaking the rules
Question 8: The genre of this selection can best be described as?
Answer: An informational article.
Question 9: Read the two excerpts. Which statement best describes how the media was viewed in the past compared to today?
Answer: In the past, media was viewed as a way to secure political agendas, while today, media is advocated as a means to secure the truth.
Question 10: Based on what you have read, how do changes in journalism methods, like using Twitter, affect readers?
Answer: They have to determine whether the information they are reading is credible.
Madagascar’s Poacher Problem Part 1
Question 1: Read this excerpt. Which two factors have contributed to the decline?
Answer 1: A prolonged drought resulting in poverty and hunger
Answer 2: A continuing political crisis
Question 2: In this selection, Ndranto Razakamanarina says?
Answer: The chain of government and political corruption
Question 3: Choose the two sentences in this expert that provide the strongest evidence that wildlife?
Answer 1: The chief customs collector at
Answer 2: “There are lots of public servants
Question 4: Richard Lewis and his colleagues at the?
Answer: They saw a Facebook post with a photo
Question 5: The plowshare tortoise is critically endangered?
Answer: It implants a microchip in each tortoise
Question 6: Based on this selection, you can tell what the author thinks.
Answer: Animal trafficking in Madagascar
Question 7: Which one of these experts from the selection most directly explains?
Answer: “We worked out that half a million
Question 8: Read this excerpt. Does this section convey?
Answer: Disheartening
Question 9: In this expert, Richard Lewis states?
Answer: A great many people who had
Madagascar’s Poacher Problem Part 2
Question 1: This selection is primarily about Project Alarm?
Answer: Attempts to eradicate…
Question 2: During the raid?
Answer: Ratsila was complacent…
Question 3: Think about your answer to the previous question.
Answer: “Not to worry,”
Question 4: The text states, “From the start….”
Answer: Establish the long-standing conflict
Question 5: Read this excerpt
Answer: To deter
Question 6: Read this excerpt.
Answer 1: The distrust
Answer 2: The Corruption
Question 7: Read this excerpt.
Answer: He thinks that all judicial members need to start taking animal trafficking seriously and appropriately.
Question 8: In this excerpt, the tone?
Answer: Despairing
Question 9: Read this excerpt.
Answer: To depict the full scope
Question 10: Avg and Eagle chose not?
Answer: To prevent others
The Power of the Printed Page
Question 1: What is the main idea of this selection?
Answer: The process of writing and the advent of books and printing have had major impacts in human history.
Question 2: Which two of the following were obstacles that Gutenberg faced when experimenting with the printing process?
Answer 1: The metal used to cast the letters must have the right combination of softness and hardness.
Answer 2: The movable letters must be precise in fit, arrangement. and spacing.
Question 3: The word hieroglyphics is derived from the Greek word meaning
Answer: “Sacred carvings” because they were used in highly revered places like temples and tombs.
Question 4: Gutenberg’s first printing apparatus was an adapted version of which piece of machinery?
Answer: A winepress
Question 5: In this excerpt, the author makes an analogy comparing the results of Gutenberg’s ingenuity to?
Answer: Keys that helped unlock the door to the modern world.
Question 6: The image shown in this picture can best be described as?
Answer: An ideogram.
Question 7: How do these two excerpts compare to or contrast with each other?
Answer: Both explain early methods of mechanical printing.
Question 8: The text states that parchment would become, and remain, the most popular writing material for more than 1,000 years. What caused parchment to become more widely used than papyrus?
Answer: The high demand for papyrus made the plant become scarce.
Question 9: This selection describes the process of making writing material from the papyrus plant. Put the steps in this process in order from first to last.
Answer 1: The stem was cut and the interior fibers were removed, flattened, and dried.
Answer 2: The edges of the fibers were overlapped, layered, and pressed together.
Answer 3: The layered papyrus was dried in large sheets.
Answer 4: The sheets were attached together to form rolls.
Question 10: The selection describes the process to make a codex. Put the steps in this process in order from first to last.
Answer 1: The copied pages were folded and separated into numbered groups called signatures.
Answer 2: The signatures were sewn with thread along the folded edge and then bound together with cords.
Answer 3: Beveled boards were attached to the front and back of the signatures, forming a book.
Answer 4: Leather was wrapped around the boards and then decorated with elegant designs.
Trend Or Tradition?
Question 1: What is the main idea of this selection?
Answer: Even a new practitioner of yoga can experience a state of clarity by unifying the body and mind.
Question 2: Choose the sentence in this excerpt that indicated the rigorousness of yoga.
Answer: “Fire burns in your thighs as you maintain this awkward position; sweat begins to pour down your contorted face”
Question 3: A yoga instructor could best be described as
Answer: A perceptive, calm guide who is knowledgeable about anatomy.
Question 4: Based on what you read, this yoga practitioner is doing a pose meant to resemble a
Answer: Dog
Question 5: If you were in a tree pose in a yoga class, what would you do to help stabilize your position, based on the information in the selection?
Answer: Fix your gaze straight ahead at a stationary object.
Question 6: What is the author’s purpose in this opening paragraph of the selection?
Answer: To provide a visual picture of the setting
Question 7: What structure does the author follow in this selection?
Answer: Alternating between a personal yoga experience and information about the history and practice of yoga
Question 8: Put these steps in the cow and cat positions in the correct order, starting with the cow.
Answer 1: Inhale while rolling your shoulder blades downward
Answer 2: Focus your gaze upward toward the ceiling
Answer 3: Exhale while arching your back muscles
Answer 4: Focus your gaze on your fingers on the floor
Question 9: Which sentence reflects the main point that the author is making in this excerpt?
Answer: People can be more productive when working in a state of calmness.
Question 10: During a yoga class what are the two primary functions of the teacher?
Answer 1: To adjust student’s position according to their unique musculoskeletal structure
Answer 2: To help maintain their attention on their breathing
Stars A Uniquely Human Trait
Question 1: Main idea?
Answer: Laughter is a common behavior…
Question 2: Why does the author mention the “Giggle Twins”?
Answer: to demonstrate that laughter can be hereditary
Question 3: According to this selection, what are two ways we can use laughter as a social tool?
Answer: It can serve as an emotional release in stressful situations.
Question 4: It can be used as?
Answer: a signal of acceptance of another person.
Question 5: What does the author use to back up many of his conclusions about laughter?
Answer: statements of experts who have conducted research
Question 6: What is the main reason that laugh tracks are often added to TV situation comedies?
Answer: Laughter is contagious and viewers will think the shows are funny.
Question 7: How does the author support the assertion that laughter helps reduce stress?
Answer: by citing a study that found patients who watched funny videos requested fewer tranquilizers
Question 8: Put these scholars in the order in which they analyzed.
Answer 1: Herodotus
Answer 2: Nietzsche
Answer 3: Freud
Answer 4: Morella
Question 9: Based on this selection, how does the activity in this image relate to laughing?
Answer: Laughing has a similar effect on the body as a good aerobic workout.
Question 10: If you told a funny joke to a schizophrenic person, what would the likely reaction be?
Answer: The person would exhibit little reaction because schizophrenics do not understand humor.
Question 11: In this excerpt, which sentence helps explain the meaning of the word “sham”?
Answer: These patients appear to be laughing out of amusement but report that they are feeling unpleasant sensations.
Cycling Capital of the World
Question 1: What is the main idea of this selection?
Answer: Making cities more bike-friendly has become increasingly popular
Question 2: According to the selection, what are two drawbacks to taking a taxi to travel around the city?
Answer 1: Taxis pollute the environment
Answer 2: Taxis can get stuck in traffic
Question 3: Why can this part from the selection be considered ironic?
Answer: The author writes that the best solution to cities’
Question 4: What could be considered surprising that Minneapolis, Minnesota, is the eighteenth most bike-friendly city in the world?
Answer: The city receives a substantial amount of snowfall
Question 5: Read this excerpt from the selection. It discusses Copenhageners, but from it, you can tell that all?
Answer: Children who ride bikes are most likely to ride bikes than adults.
Question 6: What was the main reason why Copenhagen’s painted bike lanes were not effective in improving cyclists’ safety?
Answer: People would throw garbage in the bike lanes
Question 7: Read these two excerpts. What two things do they tell you about Copenhagenize’s process of determining the world’s most bike-friendly cities?
Answer 1: The more bike-friendly improvements a city makes
Answer 2: The more inventive bike-friendly improvements a city makes
Question 8: Despite its high cost, for what main reason is the government of Copenhagen initiating its cycling superhighway project?
Answer: It’s estimated to save the city’s health care system…
Question 9: How does the author support her claim that “environmental and human health are linked”?
Answer: By giving an example of an environmental problem
Question 10: Compared to Copenhagen, Portland’s cycling infrastructure is described as?
Answer: Supplement in the vehicle space
Female Flyers Make History
Question 1: Which statement best captures the central idea of this selection?
Answer: Pioneering female pilots of WWII broke barriers, creating opportunities for women in the future.
Question 2: Based on this text, male air force pilots were sent into combat in WWII, while female pilots
Answer: Flew military planes in non-combat roles such as moving aircraft and towing targets.
Question 3: Based on your answer to the previous question, you can reasonably conclude that in WWII the United States military
Answer: Banned women from serving in combat roles.
Question 4: One form of irony is when a situation is the opposite of what you would expect. Based on this text, it is ironic that after WWII the
Answer: The air force offered WASPS a chance to become air force officers but did not let them fly.
Question 5: The genre of this selection can best be described as
Answer: Informational text.
Question 6: Which two of the following describe what a WI pilot could be doing on a ferrying mission?
Answer 1: Moving military aircraft from one airbase to another
Answer 2: Delivering planes from the manufacturer to airbases
Question 7: The author writes that female best supports this assertion. Pilots in WWII could fly just as well as men. Choose the sentence
Answer: “WASP pilots flew every aircraft operated by the air force, and they also flew almost every kind of stateside non-combat mission.”
Question 8: Based on this excerpt from the text and one other, which two of the following statements are correct?
Answer 1: Male pilots received training in using weapons in combat but WASPS did not.
Answer 2: WASPS flew the planes that towed targets for male pilots’ shooting practice.
Question 9: Read this excerpt from this text and one other Together they show that?
Answer: The military discriminated against women who faced the same level of danger as men in similar roles.
A Time Of Solitude
Question 1: What is the main idea of this selection?
Answer: Humans and animals both exhibit brutish behavior in their attempt to survive and find sustenance.
Question 2: Which two statements about the order in which Thoreau describes animals in this selection are correct?
Answer 1: The animals described later are in our near the pond
Answer 2: The first animals are in or near the house
Question 3: The author uses the adjective “domestic” here to emphasize his point that?
Answer: The cat’s innate wild nature has not been changed by years of easy indoor living.
Question 4: Throughout the selection, Thoreau uses descriptions of animals’ actions to symbolize?
Answer: Human behavior
Question 5: The animals described by Thoreau share a common trait. What is it?
Answer: They are exhibiting survival instincts.
Question 6: How does Thoreau describe the animal in this image?
Answer: As being large, about the size of a small boy
Question 7: Thoreau is best described as a man who?
Answer: Was a recluse who found solace in the natural world around him.
Question 8: In what way is the loon described in this selection different from the partridge and robing?
Answer: The loon’s behavior is more unpredictable than the other birds’ behavior.
Question 9: Where was Thoreau living when he wrote this chapter?
Answer: Near a pond in a small town
Question 10: Choose two sentences from this excerpt that use simile.
Answer 1: “It could readily ascend the sides of the room by short impulses….”
Answer 2: “When at last I held still a piece of cheese between my thumb and finger…”
Female Writers
Question 1: Which statement expresses?
Answer: Acclaimed female novelist has had
Question 2: This image relates?
Answer: Characters in romance novels began to reflect changes
Question 3: Based on this statement?
Answer: Are a visible symbol of white privilege
Question 4: Read this excerpt.
Answer: Her writing reflected the prevalent issues
Question 5: Agutha Christie
Answer 1: At the time
Answer 2: Book sales in the billions
Question 6: Based on these two excerpts?
Answer: Dominated by male authors & white
Question 7: Anna Katherine Green?
Answer: Had such legal accuracy.
Question 8: Based on this selection?
Answer 1: Het protagonist
Answer 2: She was a minority
Question 9: Isabel Allende
Answer: Magical elements
Question 10: Alice Warner
Answer: Struggle for civil rights
Slavery in the South
Question 1: What is the central idea of this selection?
Answer: African Americans who lived during the Civil War experienced constant discrimination, prejudice, and mistreatment.
Question 2: As evidenced by these excerpts, the lives of free African Americans living in both the Upper South and Lower South were constantly plagued by?
Answer: Biased restrictions.
Question 3: Choose the two sentences that best illustrate how slave owners made decisions regarding enslaved people based solely on economics.
Answer 1: “The amount of food provided to slaves depended on the slave owners, but many fed them as little as possible to keep costs low”
Answer 2: “Many slave owners were not concerned with the overall health of slaves, as they could replace them after six or seven years.”
Question 4: Read these two excerpts. Which definition of “impressed” in the second excerpt applies, based on how the word is used in the first excerpt?
Answer: Definition 4: To levy or take by force for public service
Question 5: The author included James Curry’s account of his mother’s life too.
Answer: Illustrate the daily hardships enslaved people endured.
Question 6: Many free African Americans in the South supported the Union during the war primarily due to which two factors?
Answer 1: The discrimination they faced in the South
Answer 2: The prejudice they experienced in the South
Question 7: James Curry wrote about the daily life of his mother, an enslaved African American who was a domestic in the slaveholder’s home. Her typical day included all of the following duties EXCEPT:
Answer: Planting, tending, and harvesting crops, then preparing the harvested products to be sold at market
Question 8: Based on these excerpts, what was the main distinction between the Upper South and Lower South?
Answer: The prevalence of plantations
Question 9: The Civil War began on April 12, 1861. How did this affect enslaved people living in Confederate states?
Answer: Slave Owners left to fight, resulting in more freedom for enslaved people on plantations.
Question 10: Based on what you have read, the genre of this selection can be best described as?
Answer: Non-narrative nonfiction
The Trapped
Question 1: What is the main idea of this selection?
Answer: Miners trapped underground
Question 2: In this opening excerpt, the author creates a mood of?
Answer: Danger and suspense
Question 3: Which two hardships did relatives of the trapped miners have to endure initially?
Answer 1: Inadequate shelter
Answer 2: Constant Questioning
Question 4: The author supports his statement that mining is “inherently dangerous” by noting?
Answer: The average number of miners
Question 5: Choose the sentence in this excerpt that indicates a contributing factor for the cave-in at the San Jose mine.
Answer: The mine, located near the
Question 6: Put the following events in the order in which they occurred, starting with the earliest.
Answer 1: Boreholes are drilled
Answer 2: A drill penetrates
Answer 3: Rescue workers pull
Answer 4: A camera is sent
Question 7: Which of the following was the most dangerous condition faced by the trapped miners?
Answer: Food supplies inadequate
Question 8: Which of the following can you conclude from these two excerpts?
Answer: Survival for all…
Question 9: What part does the fruit in this image play in this selection?
Answer: It provided an example…
Question 10: One decision the miners agreed to while trapped underground involved…
Answer: Sharing of any proceeds…
Question 11: Why was Maria Segovia…
Answer: She was assertive…
Question 12: In this excerpt, the author uses…
Answer: Simile…
A Tough Prisoner of War / A True Survival Story / A Hero’s Unbroken Spirit
Question 1: Main idea?
Answer: An airman’s unbreakable spirit…
Question 2: Place these events in Louie’s life in the order in which they occurred.
Answer 1: Louie and his family…
Answer 2: Louie competes…
Answer 3: Louie flies…
Answer 4: Louie is taken captive…
Question 3: When stuck in the life raft, what was most important?
Answer: Preserve their health and keep their minds and spirits sharp
Question 4: According to the selection, what was the Bird’s purpose?
Answer: To destroy his feeling of self-worth…
Question 5: Which of the following attributes helped Louie endure his imprisonment?
Answer: His willpower and self-assurance…
Question 6: Choose the sentence in this excerpt that best explains why Louie started boxing.
Answer: Third sentence.
Question 7: Which of the following sentences supports the author’s description of Louie’s return home after the war as “miraculous”…
Answer: His family and friends had no idea that he was still alive.
Question 8: Louie earned the nickname “Torrance Tornado” because he?
Answer: Set a race record that remained unbroken for 15 years.
Question 9: In this excerpt, what does Laura Hillenbrand mean when she calls Louie a “virtuoso of joy”?
Answer: Louie was an expert at brightening her outlook…
Question 10: What does this quote by Laura Hillenbrand say about life?
Answer: A negative attribute can develop into a positive one over time.
The Bet / Human Punishment
Question 1: Based on what you have read, how could Chekhov’s writing style be considered ironic?
Answer: He wrote simply of complex characters with complicated motivations
Question 2: What was the bet?
Answer: The banker bet that the lawyer couldn’t handle living in solitary confinement
Question 3: There are two main characters in this piece, but only the banker provides narration. How does this affect the selection?
Answer: The reader is allowed only one character’s point of view
Question 4: Based on the context of this excerpt, the word “jailer” means?
Answer: jailor
Question 5: Based on this excerpt, what conclusion can be made about the banker’s motivations?
Answer: His greed drove him to consider committing a terrible crime
Question 6: Based on these excerpts, which two statements best describe the significance of books in this selection?
Answer 1: At the end, they symbolize a descent into madness
Answer 2: At the beginning, they represent entertainment and study
Question 7: The letter is the only opportunity the reader is given to get inside the lawyer’s head. In which two ways did the 15 years of isolation affect him?
Answer 1: He became disgusted by the materialism
Answer 2: He became deeply spiritual
Question 8: Aside from giving insight into the lawyer’s state of mind, what else did the letter unwillingly do?
Answer: It saved him from being murdered
Question 9: Themes in this selection include the concepts of knowledge and wisdom. The lawyer writes that the books he read “imparted wisdom” and he is now “cleverer than you all.”But how might his knowledge and wisdom be considered flaws?
Answer: They were gained through theory, not through experience
Question 10: This excerpt states that the banker was filed with contempt for himself, yet he locked the lawyer’s letter in his safe. Based on your knowledge of the banker, what may be inferred from this?
Answer: Although he felt loathing for his actions, he remained motivated by greed and viewed the letter as evidence to prove he could keep his money
Are You Not Entertained?
Question 1: This selection is mainly about?
Answer: The transition of zoos from sources…
Question 2: The author includes direct quotes?
Answer: To reveal different individuals…
Question 3: Adelaide continued to include pandas.
Answer 1: Officials believed they could protect…
Answer 2: The animal is popular…
Question 4: Which statement best describes how modern zoos?
Answer: Zoos have chosen to entertain…
Question 5: When does the author describe the Sumatran tiger?
Answer: How the exhibit and animal looks
Question 6: What are two zoo considerations for zoo officials?
Answer 1: How much space does the zoo…
Answer 2: How popular is the particular species…
Question 7: Look at this image of visitors feeding lemurs.
Answer: Provide visitors with meaningful way…
Question 8: The author gives the reader the idea of how important zoos are.
Answer: An ark
Question 9: Based on this selection, the Zoos and Aquarium Associations?
Answer: Promotes the physical and mental…
Question 10: The influence of ” Blackfish”?
Answer: Zoo officials around the world…
The Man With The Muck-Rake
Question 1: What is the main idea of this speech?
Answer: People who focus
Question 2: To Theodore Roosevelt?
Answer: Excusing the
Question 3: Overall, the purpose of Roosevelt’s
Answer: Average American citizen
Question 4: In this speech, Roosevelt attacks?
Answer: Tabloid journalism and corporate
Question 5: Which sentence is correct about R?
Answer: They were more interested in
Question 6: The time of Roosevelt’s speech?
Answer: Moralistic
Question 7: According to Theodore Roosevelt?
Answer: The inability/a cynical
Question 8: Which sentence from the selection?
Answer: To assail great evils of our political
Question 9: Based on the excerpt, which is larger?
Answer: The role and responsibilities…
Question 10: What did Roosevelt view as a solution…
Answer: Emotional restraint and common sense…
Question 11: What larger question did Roosevelt?
Answer: The role and responsibilities of
Question 12: When it comes to muck-rakers?
Answer: Use their profession for worthy
Mystery And Adventure
Question 1: Main idea?
Answer: Humans are unaware…
Question 2: Which of the following is true about people?
Answer: hey were confident…
Question 3: In this excerpt, the author uses an analogy to illustrate that?
Answer: Martians regard humans as humans regard animals.
Question 4: Based on this selection, Martians could be described as?
Answer: smart, indifferent, and insensitive.
Question 5: Choose the sentence in this excerpt that contains an example of irony.
Answer: 3rd sentence
Question 6: Put in chronological order the sequence of clues that point to a future…
Answer 1: A great light is seen
Answer 2: Lavalle of Java
Answer 3: The author observes three
Answer 4: The author observes a jetting out of gas
Question 7: Compared to Earth, Mars has?
Answer: colder temperatures, thinner air, and fewer oceans.
Question 8: The author points out that humans should not.
Answer: humans too have conducted incidents of destruction and warfare.
Question 9: Identify two pieces of evidence that support the answer.
Answer 1: Mankind has eradicated
Answer 2: Mankind has brought
Question 10: In this excerpt, the author creates a mood of?
Answer: foreboding.
Crisis On The Slopes / Lost In The Snow
Question 1: What is the main idea of this
Answer: Overconfidence and misjudgment
Question 2: What was the most important
Answer: The deduction of his sister
Question 3: According to this selection
Answer: Pups have only the slightest chance…
Question 4: In this excerpt, the tone
Answer: Doubtful /pessimistic
Question 5: Read the following excerpt
Answer: The aspen highlands/they had already searched most of the area
Question 6: In the last part of the selection
Answer: About 30 degrees to the left
Question 7: Which sentence supports the
Answer: But for now, I choose to live free
Question 8: Which sentence best supports
Answer: He spent hours researching
Question 9: While Morgan was in the helicopter
Answer: She was always that avalanches
Question 10: Put Jake’s dialogue describing
Answer: we tucked our heads/I yelled for Nick/nick pulled me down/crawled on our hands…
Question 11: According to this selection, snow constantly…
Answer: The evolution of man…
What Can You Grow in a Cell Pod?
Question 1: What is the central idea of this selection?
Answer: Scientists are tinkering with…
Question 2: Based on what you have read, it seems possible that the Cell pod
Answer: Could change people’s relationships…
Question 3: In this excerpt, the author most likely set out to
Answer: Enlighten readers to several challenges…
Question 4: According to Reuters, whole plant cells…
Answer: Capsules, with most of
Question 5: What figurative language is
Answer: “Fruits of one labor”
Question 6: sorry I forgot the whole question
Answer: An idiom
Question 7: Based on this image of saffron…
Answer: It depicts food that…
Question 8: Why is Lauri Reutuer’s question…
Answer: It opened up a discussion…
Question 9: In this excerpt, Marianne Ellise…
Answer: Insider expert commentary
Question 10: Presently, cell cultures were grown…
Answer: Healthful nutritional supplements
Question 11: According to the scientist, expanding the human diet…
Answer: Boost human resilience…
Heroes And Trailblazers
Question 1: Main idea?
Answer: The Visionary
Question 2: Which sentence supports the author’s statement that Jobs developed a cultlike following?
Answer: New Apple products
Question 3: Choose the sentence in this excerpt that describes Jobs’ style of “nonmanagement”.
Answer: Second sentence
Question 4: Jobs dropped out of college because he was concerned about
Answer: straining his family’s finances.
Question 5: Why does the author mention the “Big Brother” Super Bowl commercial that launched the Mac?
Answer: to demonstrate Apple’s nonconformist style
Question 6: Why does the author use the word “elegant” to describe Jobs’ product design?
Answer: Jobs tuned
Question 7: Based on this excerpt, in what two ways was Steve Jobs like Tom Sawyer?
Answer 1: He was good at getting others…
Answer 2: He was effective in gaining…
Question 8: Put these events in Steve Jobs’ life in the correct order in which they occurred, starting with the earliest.
Answer 1: He joins
Answer 2: He meets
Answer 3: He builds
Answer 4: He copies
Question 9: Jobs’ leadership style could be described as
Answer: exacting.
Question 10: What evidence does the author give to support his contention…
Answer: Jobs, the son of working-class parents
Groundbreaking Female Authors
Question 1: What is the central idea?
Answer: Despite persistent gender bias in publishing
Question 2: In this excerpt, the author uses the military.
Answer: Gender equality issues
Question 3: Which two details from the selection?
Answer 1: Her boom about the dangers
Answer 2: She was a scientist at A time
Question 4: Together those two excerpts show that?
Answer: Both nonfiction and poetry
Question 5: Please read the following two excerpts.
Answer: Thoughts about her evolution
Question 6: Poet and civil rights?
Answer: Spoken word movement which inspired the hip-hop
Question 7: In this excerpt, the author uses the word searing.
Answer: Extremely intense
Question 8: The author describes A sequence of events.
Answer: To emphasize her rapid rise
Question 9: Read this excerpt.
Answer: Going undercover as A low wage unskilled workers
Question 10: The author writes?
Answer: Incorporate verse
Question 11: Emily Dickinson was one of the greatest poets in American history, Which one of the following shows the significance of this?
Answer: She was unknown as a poet until after her death.
Question 12: In this excerpt, the phrase “hard nut to crack” shows the author’s use of a literacy device known as?
Answer: An idiom.
Question 13: According to this excerpt from the text and one other, what “cultural assumption” has contributed to male authors’ domination of nonfiction?
Answer: Female authors have historically not been viewed as being able to handle serious content.
Question 14: The author describes books and poetry as Emily Dickenson’s “salvation”. Choose two sentences that show why?
Answer 1: For most of her life, Dickenson preferred to stay indoors.
Answer 2: She isolated herself from the public, staying close to her family.
Sam’s Monkey / Gretchen
Question 1: What is the main idea of this?
Answer: Never give up hope because
Question 2: When the surgeon discusses his?
Answer: He uses a direct, but reassuring tone
Question 3: Why did Sam’s mom display his?
Answer: To demonstrate he had the ability
Question 4: Why does the author use the?
Answer: To emphasize her theme of
Question 5: Capuchin Monkeys can help there?
Answer: Operating basic equipment like
Question 6: Which sentence best captures?
Answer: Gretchen would cock her head
Question 7: Which sentence provides?
Answer: Gretchen became thrilled with
Question 8: Why does Sam refuse to see any?
Answer: He doesn’t want anyone to feel so
Question 9: What sentence demonstrates that?
Answer: As Sam watched from the sidelines
Question 10: In this excerpt, what does Sam do?
Answer: So knows his body will come back
The Greatest Issues Of Our Time
Question 1: The speech delivered by Mrs. Roosevelt was?
Answer: mainly about the preservation of human freedom.
Question 2: Why did Mrs. Roosevelt choose to make this speech in France?
Answer: France had a long history of supporting human rights.
Question 3: Based on Mrs. Roosevelt’s description of the U.N. declaration, which statement is true?
Answer 1: The declaration was created to uphold the dignity of the individual.
Answer 2: The Declaration of Human Rights was ratified by a clear majority of nations.
Question 4: Read the synopsis of the U.S. Bill of Rights and the summary of the U.N Declaration of Human Rights. Based on these excerpts, which statement is correct?
Answer: The rights described in the two documents overlap in many ways, but the Declaration is more explicit in the description of personal freedoms.
Question 5: According to Mrs. Roosevelt, trade unions in Soviet countries were?
Answer: a propaganda tool of the government.
Question 6: President Truman most likely selected Mrs. Roosevelt as a delegate to the U.N. because she was?
Answer: enormously popular with the American people.
Question 7: Soviet Bloc nations did not ratify the declaration, in part, because they claimed to have already achieved many of the rights cited in the declaration. Mrs. Roosevelt challenged these Soviet claims. What did she say?
Answer: She said Soviet citizens did not have a free press, because they were prohibited from criticizing Communism.
Question 8: In the speech, Mrs. Roosevelt uses the phrase “slave society’ to describe a society in which?
Answer: everyone is employed, but not at work of their own choosing.
Question 9: Which terms best describe the tone of Mrs. Roosevelt’s speech?
Answer: persuasive and meticulous
Suffrage & Civil Rights
Question 1: What is the central idea of this selection?
Answer 1: The turn of the 20th century heralded a significant period of social activism & change in Answer 2: America, particularly for women & African Americans
Question 2: Compare the women described in these excerpts from the test. Compared to American women living at the onset of US independence, American women today?
Answer: Have more rights in the workplace through inequalities remain, particularly for Latinas and women of color
Question 3: The National American Woman Suffrage Association was formed?
Answer: When separate women’s suffrage groups founded by Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone merged into one
Question 4: Which of the following court cases overturned segregation in schools to launch the modern civil rights movement?
Answer: Brown v. Board of Education
Question 5: Put these significant events from the modern American feminism movement in the order they occurred, from earliest to latest.
Answer 1: Alice Paul formed the National Women’s Party
Answer 2: The U.S. passed the Nineteenth Amendment
Answer 3: The Equal Rights Amendment was first proposed
Answer 4: The National Organization for Women was formed
Question 6: In this sentence, the word oratorical is best replaced by the word
Answer: Speaking
Question 7: The Montgomery Bus Boycott was so effective because?
Answer: Pulled money away from the Montgomery busing system, forcing change to happen
Question 8: When the author describes many 20th-century women as being “frustrated with their limited citizenship” she is?
Answer: emphasizing the growing agitation women experience, having limited rights in a country controlled politically by men
Question 9: The document in this image is related to which event in the history of women’s suffrage?
Answer: The Seneca Falls convention
Question 10: The first protestors to descend on the White House?
Answer: were women advocating for their right to vote, and they were arrested by police and mistreated by bystanders.
Profit, People, and the Planet / Little Farms, Big Benefits
Question 1: Read this excerpt from the text and one other. Which sentence from the text do these excerpts support?
Answer: Farmers are combining old methods with new technologies to change farming for the better
Question 2: Based on the text, which one of the following describes the agriculture practice of monoculture?
Answer: Production of a single crop in the same field year after year
Question 3: Based on your answer to the previous question, which one of the following describes an opposing agriculture practice?
Answer: Use of intensive crop rotation
Question 4: Based on the text, sustainable farms must be “capable of maintaining their productivity.” Which part of the “triple bottom line” does this refer to?
Answer: Economic profit
Question 5: Don Bustos grows salad greens in a greenhouse year-round. According to this excerpt, what prevented him from doing this before he installed solar panels?
Answer: High operating costs
Question 6: Which two of the following techniques did the Carvers implement to “rejuvenate the land”?
Answer 1: Control where cattle graze
Answer 2: Avoid disturbing the soil
Question 7: A calorie measure of energy in food. Energy used to produce food can also be measured in calories. Based on the excerpt, you can conclude that the?
Answer: More processing that happens to the food the more energy it takes to produce it
Question 8: The author’s purpose in writing this selection is to?
Answer: Present information about sustainable agriculture and its benefits to farmers and society
Question 9: Based on these two excerpts, you can conclude that intensive grazing?
Answer: Reduces soil erosion
Question 10: Which one of the following describes the term “acequia”?
Answer: Community-operated irrigation system
Question 11: What is the main idea of the story?
Answer: Farmers are combining old methods with new technologies to change farming for the better
Question 12: Read these two excerpts. Which two of the following show differences in how Bustos and industrial farmers manage pests?
Answer 1: Industrial crops have a low tolerance for pests; Bustos plants crops when there is a low risk of pests.
Answer 2: Bustos uses beneficial insects to control pests, while industrial farmers may use harmful pesticides.
Question 13: Which one of the following shows the metaphor used by the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems to describe sustainable farming?
Answer: Three-legged stool
Question 14: A calorie measure of energy in food. Energy used to produce food can also be measured in calories. Based on this except you can conclude that?
Answer: More processing that happens to food the more energy it takes to produce it
Question 15: Read this excerpt from the text and one other. Which sentence from the text do these excerpts support?
Answer: Sustainable and industrial agriculture are not mutually exclusive
Slave Trade and Ships
Question 1: Which statement from the selection best expresses the central idea?
Answer: The Amistad was an important event in the transatlantic…..
Question 2: The authors of this selection discuss the “Middle Passage” of the three-part transatlantic trade…..
Answer: Transport of kidnapped African people to the Americas where they sold……
Question 3: The previous question asked about the transatlantic trade route. Based on your answer to that question…..
Answer: Ships from European ports brought goods to Africa in exchange for human beings.
Question 4: Which two of the following show the significance of Justice Joseph Story’s Supreme Court decision?
Answer 1: It was a turning point in the abolitionist movement
Answer 2: It affirmed the ideals on which the country was founded.
Question 5: Which one of the following shows the irony in this excerpt?
Answer: The meaning of the name of the ship
Question 6: The African captives on slave ships had a “completely unknown future” Based on the text, a primary reason for this was that
Answer: Those who were captured never returned to their homelands to share their experience.
Question 7: Based on this excerpt from the selection, the “three-part transatlantic trade route” could be considered
Answer: Forced Migration
Question 8: Select the two sentences in this excerpt from the text….
Answer 1: The naval officers from the USS Washington, as well as two
Answer 2: They claimed they should receive the value
Question 9: Read the excerpt from the selection and one from another source…
Answer: By expanding on information in the first excerpt
Question 10: Which pair of words best characterize the author’s tone throughout this selection?
Answer: Candid and Objective
From Field to Table
Question 1: What is the main idea of this selection?
Answer: Concern about freshness and quality
Question 2: Put these events in the operation of a CSA in the order
Answer 1: Shareholders buy a portion
Answer 2: Farmers buy supplies and equipment
Answer 3: Shareholders put in some hours working
Answer 4: Some produce is donated
Question 3: Choose the sentence in this excerpt that indicates the causes of the decline.
Answer: Because of urbanization and industrialization
Question 4: Based on this excerpt, which feature of CSAs most promotes shareholders’
Answer: The concept of shared risks in investments
Question 5: In which two ways have CSAs prompted?
Answer 1: Some supermarkets now display information
Answer 2: Some supermarkets now purchase organic produce
Question 6: What evidence does the author offer to support the claim that?
Answer: They are free of chemicals pesticides and herbicides
Question 7: When a consumer joins a CSA, what the process can be compared to?
Answer: Buying a stock whose profitability
Question 8: Based on this excerpt, how does the author view the problems?
Answer: Sympathetically
Question 9: Which aspect of farmers’ market and CSAs would be?
Answer The short distance the food travels
Question 10: Based on this excerpt, you can deduce that?
Answer: The actions of relatively small groups can start trends
Basic Butterflies?
Question 1: Which of the following statements conveys the central idea of this selection?
Answer: Environmental changes can lead to what was once weird becoming the new normal.
Question 2: Read this excerpt. What is the author’s main point in this excerpt?
Answer: Different environments can favor one version of a gene over another.
Question 3: Based on the text, what changed for white monarch butterflies in the mid-1960s?
Answer: The white monarch butterfly population in Oahu was increasing.
Question 4: Put these events in order to show the education and career of “bugman” Mark Berman.
Answer 1: He went to college for his undergraduate degree at the University of Hawaii.
Answer 2: He worked with zoologist John Stimson to research the rare white monarch butterfly.
Answer 3: He studied science education and mosquitos in graduate school
Answer 4: He started a company that provides educational programs about the natural world.
Question 5: Read this excerpt. Based on the text, sequencing monarch genomes may help scientists answer which of the following two questions?
Answer 1: Are the white monarchs in Vanuatu descended from white monarchs in Hawaii?
Answer 2: Is a different gene involved in the wing color of Vanuatu’s white monarch?
Question 6: Read this excerpt. Based on the text, which one of the following inferences can be drawn?
Answer: Warning coloration and patterns help protect both monarch butterflies and their predators.
Question 7: Read this excerpt. Choose the sentence that contains the scientific word for the “quirks” within a species.
Answer: “These differences are called “polymorphisms,” and human populations have them too.”
Question 8: Choose the two sentences that show that monarch butterflies are not the only species to exhibit genetic “polymorphisms.”
Answer 1: “Tigers in India are sometimes born with black stripes on a white coat.”
Answer 2: “Black bears in Canada might enter the world wearing white fur, despite their name.”
Question 9: Choose the sentence that shows what scientists believe may relate to the increase of white monarch butterflies on Oahu.
Answer: “Judging from the carnage they leave behind-disembodied butterfly wings, mostly orange, scattered like autumn leaves on the ground–bulbuls are most likely to target orange monarchs.”
Question 10: Read these two excerpts from the selection. Based on the text, the idea of an “evolutionary life raft” helps explain how?
Answer: The dark-peppered moth was able to make a comeback.
A Sisterhood of Spies
Question 1: What is the main idea of this selection?
Answer: It is not widely known that women have played important roles in the world of espionage.
Question 2: Based on the text, in what way did female spies once hold a tactical advantage over men?
Answer: Women didn’t draw attention because they were viewed as housewives.
Question 3: According to Lindsay Moran, a key to survival for spies is?
Answer: street smarts.
Question 4: Based on the text, why are some female spies referred to as “honey trappers”?
Answer: They use their sweet charms to seduce the enemy.
Question 5: Which sentence supports the statement that women spies made invaluable contributions to their respective counties?
Answer: Nancy Wake coordinated a spy network so extensive and effective that the Gestapo put a price on her head worth millions of dollars.
Question 6: The case of Elizabeth Van Lew, or “Crazy Bet,” demonstrates that it is advantageous if a spy is?
Answer: a convincing actor.
Question 7: In this excerpt, the term “patriots in petticoats” has a tone that could be considered.
Answer: humorous.
Question 8: A statement that follows the phrase “contrary to stereotype” would refer to something.
Answer: not regarded widely as true.
Question 9: Based on the text, what kept women from being recruited to work as spies prior to World War II?
Answer: persistent prejudice
Question 10: From this selection, you can deduce that?
Answer: many essential characteristics of successful spies come naturally to women.
The New 49ers
Question 1: rate
Answer: 3 stars
Question 2: What is the main idea of this selection?
Answer: A modern “gold rush” has compelled
Question 3: Choose the sentence in this excerpt that…
Answer: Despite the relative ease of finding…
Question 4: Place these mining methods in the order in
Answer 1: Panning in water; Using shovels and picks
Answer 2: Blasting with dynamite
Answer 3: Blasting with electronic explosives
Question 5: In this opening excerpt, the authors…
Answer: To pique readers’ curiosity about gold
Question 6: Based on this selection, most people…
Answer: Lustrous appearance
Question 7: A modern gold rush is taking place because
Answer: Mining techniques have become cheaper and safer
Question 8: Based on this selection, where did this…
Answer: In lode gold deposits from within mountains…
Question 9: Based on this excerpt, when Keith Emerald…
Answer: Compelling
Question 10: The Stutter Gold mining company…
Answer: The price of gold was so high that…
Question 11: Based on this excerpt, why was it so surprising…
Answer: The land had been heavily mined…
Amateur Astronauts
Question 1: What is the main idea?
Answer: The space tourism industry has A brilliant
Question 2: According to this excerpt?
Answer 1: the need for large
Answer 2: the need to bring
Question 3: Which of the following?
Answer: It peaked during the first moon landing
Question 4: In this photo?
Answer: Another ship launches it in mid-air as opposed
Question 5: In this excerpt
Answer: To illustrate that Pan-am believed space tourism
Question 6: Place the following
Answer 1: us Apollo
Answer 2: Dennis Tito
Answer 3: anousteh
Answer 4: virgin galactic
Question 7: What is the biggest barrier?
Answer: Astronomical prices for space trips
Question 8: Which sentence best summarizes?
Answer: Early accommodation for space tourists
Question 9: What do these two excerpts?
Answer: He presents the positions of both supporters
Question 10: Anousheh Absuri trip?
Answer 1: she was the first female space tourist
Answer 2: she was the first Iranian to go into space
Human or Ape?
Question 1: The selection mainly?
Answer: Identifies a discovery that is forcing…
Question 2: Scientists will continue to look.
Answer: The current understanding of human evolution…
Question 3: What is the most compelling evidence?
Answer: Studies show humans…
Question 4: The author used the word “encase”
Answer: Would be difficult to extract
Question 5: What is the author’s purpose for including rhetorical?
Answer: To persuade the reader to consider other points of view
Question 6: This text is best described as?
Answer: informational nonfiction
Suffrage and Civil Rights
Question 1: PICTURE OF STORY ON THIS LINK
Answer: https://ibb.co/9qk05Vg
Question 2: What is the central idea of this selection?
Answer: The turn of the 20th century heralded a significant period of social activism and change in America, particularly for women and African Americans
Question 3: Compare the women described in these excerpts from the test. Compared to American women living at the onset of the U.S. independence, American women today?
Answer: Have more rights in the workplace through inequalities remain, particularly for Latinas and women of color
Question 4: The National American Woman Suffrage Association was formed?
Answer: When separate women’s suffrage groups founded by Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone merged into one.
Question 5: Which of the following court cases overturned segregation in schools to launch the modern civil rights movement?
Answer: Brown v. Board of Education
Question 6: Put these significant events from the modern American feminism movement in the order they occurred, from earliest to latest.
Answer 1: Alice Paul formed the National Women’s Party
Answer 2: The U.S. passed the Nineteenth Amendment
Answer 3: The Equal Rights Amendment was first proposed
Answer 4: The National Organization for Women was formed
Question 7: In this sentence the word oratorical is best replaced by the word?
Answer: Speaking
Question 8: The Montgomery Bus Boycott was so effective because
Answer: Pulled money away from the Montgomery busing system, forcing change to happen.
Question 9: When the author describes many 20th-century women as being “frustrated with their limited citizenship” she is?
Answer: emphasizing the growing agitation women experience, having limited rights in a country controlled politically by men.
Question 10: The document in this image is related to which event in the history of women’s suffrage?
Image:
Answer: the Seneca Falls convention
Question 11: The first protestors to descend on the White House
Answer: were women advocating for their right to vote, and they were arrested by police and mistreated by bystanders.
Looking For Clues In Quilts
Question 1: This selection revolves around the?
Answer: Questionable authenticity
Question 2: When did other quilt scholars?
Answer: Provided evidence that the research
Question 3: What is most strongly implied?
Answer: People may have trouble seeing
Question 4: How do these excerpts from the text?
Answer: Are discusses the definition
Question 5: What would have most likely happened?
Answer: McDowell may have success
Question 6: The author included this selection.
Answer: Over trusts organizations failed
Question 7: In this excerpt from the text the word dearth?
Answer: Lack
Question 8: Based on this selection a coded quilt?
Answer: What are the area’s immediate dangers
Question 9: While Rubin and Poland were writing?
Answer: Conducting historical research
Question 10: The tone of this selection?
Answer: Candid and informative
A Woman’s Prerogative
Question 1: What is the main idea?
Answer: A newspaper reporter defies conventional
Question 2: Choose the sentence that shows Nellie.
Answer: Never one to conform to custom
Question 3: This drawing of Nellie Bly?
Answer: People were so excited by her journey
Question 4: You can tell Nellie Bly articles?
Answer: Prompted further investigation
Question 5: Place the following news articles.
Answer 1: Nellie writes about corrupt politics
Answer 2: Nellie writes about the wretched
Answer 3: Nellie writes about her world travels
Answer 4: Nellie writes about World War I
Question 6: As a business owner?
Answer: Access to the gymnasium in which to exercise
Question 7: In this excerpt the tone of Nellie’s?
Answer: Practical
Question 8: Why was Nellie Bly so infuriated?
Answer: She had learned firsthand that
Question 9: When Nellie Bly departed?
Answer: Dressed in an ankle-length suit
Question 10: What evidence does the author give?
Answer: She provided her own workers
Question 11: Nellie Bly’s family went from wealth to poverty when she was a little girl because?
Answer: Her father died without a will
Question 12: After returning to New York after World War I
Answer: Orphanages
Question 13: Which two sentences describe Nellie?
Answer 1: She was intelligent enough…
Answer 2: She was surprised but…
The Thoughts of a Monarch
Question 1: This selection is mainly about Queen Victoria and?
Answer: Her thoughts regarding marriage
Question 2: Before Victoria met Albert, what was her position regarding marriage?
Answer: She preferred to postpone marriage as long as possible or not marry at all.
Question 3: Put these events from Victoria
Answer 1: She was crowned queen.
Answer 2: She turned 20.
Answer 3: She met her cousins Ernest and Albert.
Answer 4: She married Prince Albert.
Question 4: Read this excerpt. When Queen Victoria commented, “In general such things were done the other way,” what did she mean?
Answer: She had to ask Albert to marry her; Usually the man asked the woman.
Question 5: What do these two excerpts suggest about Victoria’s attitude toward her role model as monarch?
Answer: She realized the gravity of her position and strove to fulfill her duties to the best of her abilities.
Question 6: What was the primary factor that caused Victoria to embrace the idea of marrying Albert?
Answer: Albert was charming and handsome
Question 7: What is the purpose of this paragraph?
Answer: It illustrates the complications of royal succession.
Question 8: Which two statements about Queen Victoria are correct?
Answer 1: She became queen when she was 18 years old.
Answer 2: She reigned for 63 years.
Question 9: The genre of this selection can be best described as?
Answer: Autobiographical
Question 10: The royal marriage act of 1772 stated that?
Answer: No descendant of George II can marry without the Sovereign’s consent.
Question 11: The mood in this excerpt can best be described as?
Answer: Festive
Question 12: Queen Victoria described her wedding.
Answer: Keep the promises they make
Question 13 As a young and unmarried queen, Victoria lived with her mother. Why?
Answer: She was required to do so by social construct.
Question 14: Queen Victoria described her wedding ceremony as “imposing.” She hoped it made an “everlasting impression on every” to do what?
Answer: Keep the promises they made
Trend Or Tradition
Question 1: What is the main idea of this selection?
Answer: Even a new practitioner of yoga can experience a state of clarity by unifying the body and mind.
Question 2: Choose the sentence in this excerpt that indicated the rigorousness of yoga.
Answer: Fire burns in your thighs as you maintain this awkward position; sweat begins to pour down your contorted face.
Question 3: A yoga instructor could best be described as?
Answer: A perceptive, calm guide who is knowledgeable about anatomy.
Question 4: Based on what you read, this yoga practitioner is doing a pose meant to resemble a?
Answer: Dog
Question 5: If you were in a tree pose in a yoga class, what would you do to help stabilize your position, based on the information in the selection?
Answer: Fix your gaze straight ahead at a stationary object.
Question 6: What is the author’s purpose in this opening paragraph of the selection?
Answer: To provide a visual picture of the setting.
Question 7: What structure does the author follow in this selection?
Answer: Alternating between a personal yoga experience and information about the history and practice of yoga.
Question 8: Put these steps in the cow and cat positions in the correct order, starting with the cow.
Answer 1: Inhale while rolling your shoulder blades downward.
Answer 2: Focus your gaze upward toward the ceiling.
Answer 3: Exhale while arching your back muscles.
Answer 4: Focus your gaze on your fingers on the floor.
Question 9: Which sentence reflects the main point that the author is making in this excerpt?
Answer: People can be more productive when working in a state of calmness.
Question 10: During a yoga class what are the two primary functions of the teacher?
Answer 1: To adjust students’ position according to their unique musculoskeletal structure.
Answer 2: To help maintain their attention on their breathing.
Degrees Of Change Earth 2100
Question 1: What is the central idea?
Answer: The consequences of climate change will be deadly.
Question 2: Which statement best describes it?
Answer: The author explains the different factors.
Question 3: Read this excerpt.
Answer: Making it impossible for humans to live there.
Question 4: The author feels some solution?
Answer: Relocate humans to higher latitudes.
Question 5: According to the selection?
Answer: The plants and animals had time to adjust.
Question 6: Choose the sentence that reveals?
Answer: The reason is primarily making enough.
Question 7: In this excerpt the word sanguine?
Answer: Optimistic.
Question 8: Read this excerpt which statement?
Answer: Cities need to change the means by which.
Question 9: In this excerpt the phrase?
Answer: Where most of a country’s provisions come from.
Question 10: Choose the sentence in this excerpt.
Answer: The tipping point for Amazon.
The Orchestra Of Recycled Instruments
Question 1: What is the main idea?
Answer: A community uses its meager resource to improve.
Question 2: This except has a tone?
Answer: Demoralizing.
Question 3: The instrument used by orchestra members?
Answer: Creativity Chavez & Gomes.
Question 4: Based on this selection?
Answer: Is a universal attraction that inspires.
Question 5: The children of Cateura?
Answer: Filmmakers posted a short film about them.
Question 6: Which sentence provides evidence?
Answer: Parents were acutely interested.
Question 7: In this excerpt why is Cateura?
Answer: The landfill contained hazardous.
Question 8: Choose the sentence in this excerpt.
Answer: They were acutely interested.
Question 9: Based on this selection why would you?
Answer: They now know the value of working.
Question 10: Which sentence is the most?
Answer: Poverty is so acute that one violin.
The Man With The Muck-Rake
Question 1: What is the main idea of this speech?
Answer: People who focus on nothing but evil are themselves forces of evil.
Question 2: Based on this excerpt, the audience members who heard this speech probably felt that Roosevelt was?
Answer: looking out for their best interests.
Question 3: When it comes to the muck-rakers, Roosevelt urges them?
Answer: to use their profession for worthy endeavors by sticking to the truth.
Question 4: Overall, the purpose of Roosevelt’s speech could be described as a plea for?
Answer: the average American citizen displays integrity.
Question 5: In this speech, Roosevelt attacks?
Answer: tabloid journalism and corporate greed.
Question 6: Which sentence is true about Roosevelt’s feelings about the muck-rakers?
Answer: They were more interested in scandal and sensational details than genuine reform.
Question 7: The tone of Roosevelt’s speech could be described as?
Answer: moralistic.
Question 8: Which sentence from the selection supports Roosevelt’s claim that the muckrakers were doing “untold damage to the country as a whole”?
Answer: To assail great evils of our political and industrial life with crude generalizations as to include decent men in the condemnation means the searing of the public conscience.
Question 9: What did Roosevelt view as a solution to the muck-raking problem?
Answer: emotional restraint and common sense
Question 10: What larger question did Roosevelt’s speech raise?
Answer: the role and responsibilities of journalists in a free society
