Part 2: Summarizing an Author’s Viewpoint in an Informational Text

Question 1

Why does MacGregor begin the chapter on the slit drum with facts about Horatio Herbert Kitchener?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

D: to make the reader understand why Kitchener captured the slit drum

Question 2

X He asks a question.He gives an anecdote.✔ He provides a description.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A: He asks a question.

Question 3

Question 3

Revolt · Accepted Answer

B: Great Britain’s rule over Sudan

Question 4

What is the cultural significance of the carvings on the side of the slit drum?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A: They convey the dominance of Islam in Khartoum in the late 1800s.

Question 5

Which quotations reveal the historical significance of the suffragette-defaced penny? Check all that apply.“. . . the battle only really got going at the start of the twentieth century, when the suffragette movement was born . . .”“Defacing a coin of the realm is a more subtle crime – one with no evident victims . . .”“The idea is incredibly clever, because it uses the potential that coinage has . . . to be widely circulated.”“Our Edward VII bronze penny was struck in the year of the formation of the Women’s Social and Political Union (the WSPU), whose founders included Emmeline Pankhurst . . .”“The suffragettes became systematic lawbreakers in order to change the law, and defacing the penny was just one element in a campaign that went far beyond civil disobedience.”

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A: “. . . the battle only really got going at the start of the twentieth century, when the suffragette movement was born . . .”; D: “Our Edward VII bronze penny was struck in the year of the formation of the Women’s Social and Political Union (the WSPU), whose founders included Emmeline Pankhurst . . .”; E: “The suffragettes became systematic lawbreakers in order to change the law, and defacing the penny was just one element in a campaign that went far beyond civil disobedience.”

Question 6

What cultural shift does the penny represent?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

D: women becoming more concerned with their rights and less concerned with acting “ladylike”

Question 7

It makes the reader curious about Edward VII.✔ It helps the reader visualize the coin.X It links the reader personally to the suffragettes.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: It links the reader personally to the suffragettes.

Question 8

Question 8

Revolt · Accepted Answer

B: “added the emblem of the British Crown”

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