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Which of the following is the most effective thesis statement?

A
The Department of Education’s literacy advertising campaign uses several persuasive techniques to persuade a broad audience that strong reading skills are beneficial.
B
The Department of Education’s ad campaign promoting literacy is effective in a number of ways.
C
The literacy campaign by the Department of Education is effective because it appeals to a large general audience.
D
It uses a number of strong persuasive techniques to convince a wide audience of individuals that strong reading skills are of importance.
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The purpose of your response essay will be to

A
write a new advertising campaign for the Department of Education.
B
explain the content of the Department of Education’s ad campaign.
C
identify the general audience of the advertising campaign.
D
analyze the Department of Education’s literacy ad campaign.
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Which sentence from Dispatches contains the best example of sensory language?

A
Sometimes you’d step from the bunker, all sense of time passing having left you, and find it dark out.
B
There would be dozens of them at once sometimes, trailing an intense smoke, dropping white-hot sparks, and it seemed as though anything caught in their range would be made still, like figures in a game of living statues.
C
Once in a while—I guess I saw it happen three or four times in all—there would be a secondary explosion, a direct hit on a supply of NVA ammunition.
D
If they did, when they did, it might not matter that you were in the best bunker in the DMZ, wouldn’t matter that you were young and had plans, that you were loved, that you were a noncombatant, an observer.
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Read the excerpt from Dispatches . By autumn, what had begun as an adventurous expedition had turned into an exhausting, indecisive war of attrition in which we fought for no cause other than our own survival. Which statement best explains the paradox in the excerpt?

A
It is odd that war should ever be viewed as an adventurous expedition.
B
It is surprising that the expedition turned out to be so exhausting and difficult.
C
It is unfortunate that the soldiers did not have the easy time they had anticipated.
D
It is unusual that soldiers should ever be forced to fight merely to survive.
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Read this excerpt from “Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk.” I remember distinctly the thrill of climbing aboard a U.S. Army helicopter in the cool of the morning and taking off across the rice fields with a South Vietnamese battalion for a day’s jousting with the Vietcong guerillas. There was hope then that the non-Communist Vietnamese might win their war. I was proud of the young American pilots sitting at the controls in the cockpit and I was grateful for the opportunity to witness this adventure and to report it. We are fighting now, I used to think, and some day we will triumph and this will be a better country. Which choice best describes how the author builds conflict in this excerpt?

A
He makes predictions about the possible outcomes of the war.
B
He reflects back and describes his initial optimism of the war.
C
He shares his hopes for the non-Communist Vietnamese.
D
He criticizes the US government for becoming involved in the war.

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