Cumulative Exam — Cumulative exam Answers

Read the passage from “Yellow Fever.”About 15 percent of people who fall sick feel better for a day, but then the disease progresses to a more dangerous form. The next stage can include high fever, internal bleeding, unconsciousness, and harm to the heart, liver, and kidneys. Liver damage is like a poison, and it causes people’s skin and eyes to take on a yellow color. Yellow fever gets its name from this symptom. In the end, 20 to 50 percent of people who develop the more severe type of yellow fever die.

Which sentence from “Yellow Fever” can be defined as an effect?

Read this excerpt about activist Dolores Huerta.When Dolores Huerta became an activist, she had already been married and divorced, had children, and had begun a new career as a schoolteacher.Her students were the children of farm workers. They came to school barefoot and hungry. She wanted to do more to help them. So she quit her teaching job to help their parents fight for better working conditions.

Read this excerpt about activist Dolores Huerta.Her tenacity earned her a mixed reputation. As a woman, she faced gender discrimination, even among the farm workers she tried to help. She has also been honored many times in her lifetime and remains active long past retirement. But as Huerta said, you do not expect rewards for helping the oppressed: "You do it because they need help.”

Read this excerpt about activist Dolores Huerta.Throughout the twentieth century, strikes and efforts to unionize migrant workers had failed to achieve real change. But the civic activism that swept through America after World War II stirred the Mexican-American community, including Huerta’s family.In 1955, along with her mother and an aunt, Huerta became involved in grassroots organizing as a member of the Community Service Organization (CSO). She honed her organizing skills and became a lobbyist in Sacramento, helping set up voter registration drives and fighting for the legal rights of migrant workers.

Read this excerpt about activist Dolores Huerta.Huerta always knew that her activism demanded great personal sacrifices. "I don’t feel proud of the suffering that my kids went through,” she said. "I feel very bad and guilty about it, but by the same token, I know that they learned a lot in the process.”Even when times were tough, Huerta never backed down. One of the first strikes organized by the FWA was with rose growers. On the day of a strike, she visited their houses and found out that some of them were planning to go back to work. To prevent this, she blocked their driveways with her truck and tucked the key in her purse.

Read this excerpt from "The Roller Coaster."As the chaperones bought tickets at a nearby booth, Cecelia looked up at the towering metal tracks of the roller coaster. I do not want to do this, she thought to herself.What is the connotation of the word "towering"?