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QuizMultiple Choice
Analyzing Satire in Editorial Cartoons
Question 9 • 26-27 LISD TX English II B CR (rev 8/2025)
Study the editorial cartoon Mars Probe by Mike Keefe.
Answer
A
It suggests that aliens are like people because they play baseball, a human sport.B
It uses humor to show that unknown factors keep damaging the probes humans send.C
It shows how to cope with the surface of Mars, which is rocky and full of craters.D
It exaggerates the size of the bat in relation to the Mars probe in the cartoon.