Read the excerpt from Fast Food Nation. The restaurant opens for business at seven o’clock, and for the next hour or so, Elisa and the manager hold down the fort, handling all the orders. As the place starts to get busy, other employees arrive. Elisa works behind the counter. She takes orders and hands food to customers from breakfast through lunch. When she finally walks home, after seven hours of standing at a cash register, her feet hurt. She’s wiped out. She comes through the front door, flops onto the living room couch, and turns on the TV. And the next morning she gets up at 5:15 again and starts the same routine.How does the description of Elisa’s daily routine support the author’s claim that the fast food industry seeks out teenage employees?
Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”The Negro has many pent up resentments and latent frustrations, and he must release them. How does King conclude this claim?
Read the sentence.She met her friends in the lobby, the bottom floor, of the hotel so that they could head over to the refreshing pool for a cool, brisk swim.Which is the best revision of this sentence?
Read the excerpt from Elie Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea.Why were those trains allowed to roll unhindered into Poland? Why were the tracks leading to Birkenau never bombed? I have put these questions to American presidents and generals and to high-ranking Soviet officers. Since Moscow and Washington knew what the killers were doing in the death camps, why was nothing done at least to slow down their “production”? That not a single Allied military aircraft ever tried to destroy the rail lines converging on Auschwitz remains an outrageous enigma to me.How does Wiesel’s choice of genre prove beneficial in the excerpt?
Which statement best describes why an author might choose to write a memoir over other nonfiction formats?
Read the excerpt from Amy Tan’s essay “Mother Tongue.”I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother’s “limited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say. That is, because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect.Which phrase from the excerpt uses informal English?
Which sentence is punctuated correctly?
In “Ambush,” which sentence best reflects the idea that O’Brien is more concerned with emotional truth than factual truth?
What is the speaker in "The Weary Blues" attempting to convey in his description of the scene?
Which statement best compares the structure of "Harlem" and "The Weary Blues"?
Read this excerpt from "The Intelligent Planet.". . . Computer scientists expect to see an entire world blossoming over the Internet: electronic commerce and banking, cyber malls, virtual universities and schools, cyber libraries, and so on. We will begin to have a glimpse of Hawthorne’s vision when “intelligent agents” became part of this global network, capable of answering our inquiries in plain, conversational language. But the true fruition of Hawthorne’s vision may not come until the period from 2020 to 2050, when true artificial intelligent (AI) programs will finally be added to the Net, capable of reason, common sense, and speech recognition. Select the most accurate summary of Kaku’s argument.
Which sentence best describes George Bergeron’s characterization in "Harrison Bergeron"?
Read the excerpt from "Harrison Bergeron."“You been crying?” he said to Hazel. “Yup,” she said. “What about?” he said.“I forget,” she said. “Something real sad on television.”“What was it?” he said.“It’s all kind of mixed up in my mind,” said Hazel.“Forget sad things,” said George.“I always do,” said Hazel.How does this interaction between George and Hazel develop Kurt Vonnegut’s social criticism?
How are the views of the narrators similar in “Facing It” and “Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk”?
Read the excerpt from The Namesake.At the end of his first day he is sent home with a letter to his parents from Mrs. Lapidus, folded and stapled to a string around his neck, explaining that due to their son’s preference he will be known as Gogol at school. What about the parents’ preference? Ashima and Ashoke wonder, shaking their heads. But since neither of them feels comfortable pressing the issue, they have no choice but to give in.Which choice best states a conflict revealed in this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Notes of a Native Son.He had lived and died in an intolerable bitterness of spirit and it frightened me, as we drove him to the graveyard through those unquiet, ruined streets, to see how powerful and overflowing this bitterness could be and to realize that this bitterness now was mine. Which words does Baldwin use to introduce his overarching problem?
Which sentence is written correctly?
Read the excerpt from “First Generation” of Dreaming in Cuban, by Cristina Garcia.She considers the vagaries of sports, the happenstance of El Líder, a star pitcher in his youth, narrowly missing a baseball career in America. His wicked curveball attracted the major league scouts, and the Washington Senators were interested in signing him but changed their minds. Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains.Which best explains how Garcia’s word choice helps establish her voice in the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”The other force is one of bitterness and hatred, and it comes perilously close to advocating violence. It is expressed in the various black nationalist groups that are springing up across the nation.Why does the author include these sentences?
Read the excerpt from "Missing in Action” by Thanhha Lai.(1) Father left home(2) on a navy mission(3) on this day(4) nine years ago(5) when I was almost one.(6) He was captured(7) on Route 1(8) an hour south of the city(9) by moped.(10) That’s all we know.
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