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Enhancing a Presentation with Multimedia — Cumulative exam Answers

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Read the excerpt from Julius Caesar, act 1, scene 2.CASCA. Why, there was a crown offered him: and beingoffered him, he put it by with the back of his hand,thus; and then the people fell a-shouting.230BRUTUS. What was the second noise for?CASCA. Why, for that too.CASSIUS. They shouted thrice. What was the last cry for?CASCA. Why, for that too.BRUTUS. Was the crown offered him thrice?235CASCA. Ay, marry, was’t; and he put it by thrice, everytime gentler than other; and at every putting by,mine honest neighbours shouted.

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character vs. society
B
character vs. character
C
character vs. nature
D
character vs. self
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Read the passage from "Two Kinds.”She walked over and stood in front of the TV. I saw her chest was heaving up and down in an angry way."No!” I said, and I now felt stronger, as if my true self had finally emerged. So this was what had been inside me all along."No! I won’t!” I screamed.She yanked me by the arm, pulled me off the floor, snapped off the TV. She was frighteningly strong, half pulling, half carrying me toward the piano as I kicked the throw rugs under my feet. She lifted me up and onto the hard bench. I was sobbing by now, looking at her bitterly. Her chest was heaving even more and her mouth was open, smiling crazily as if she were pleased I was crying."You want me to be something that I’m not!” I sobbed. "I’ll never be the kind of daughter you want me to be!”"Only two kinds of daughters,” she shouted in Chinese. "Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!”

A
She is extrinsically motivated by fear of having wasted money on a piano that no one plays.
B
She is extrinsically motivated by her anger over her daughter’s television-viewing practices.
C
She is intrinsically motivated by her love of piano music to get her daughter to practice playing.
D
She is intrinsically motivated by her belief that children should obey their parents.
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Which phrases or sentences best build the ideas about why women often choose to remain unknown? Select two options.

A
“Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them.”
B
“They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are.”
C
“They . . . will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.”
D
“. . . as Alf, Bert or Chas. must do in obedience to their instinct.”
E
“Here the psychologists of Newnham and Girton might come to our help.”
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Read Mireille's rebuttal to the counterclaim that Bob Dylan's lyrics cannot be considered literature.Although it is true that Bob Dylan is primarily a songwriter, I consider his lyrics to be just as good as any poetry.

A
many people find his lyrics very moving
B
Dylan has also written poetry and traditional prose
C
his lyrics use poetic devices such as allusion and metaphor
D
a lot of people consider his lyrics to be just as good as any poetry
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Read the excerpt from "The Role of Social Media in the Arab Uprisings" by Heather Brown, Emily Guskin, and Amy Mitchell.Now, research is emerging that reexamines in a more detailed way the role that social media played in the Arab uprisings.In July 2012 a report was published by the United States Institute of Peace based on an extensive content analysis of bit.ly links from the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Bahrain. Bit.ly links, or short URLs, are predominantly used in social media such as Twitter. The authors came to some conclusions that countered the initial assumption that social media was a causal mechanism in the uprisings.Instead, the study suggests that the importance of social media was in communicating to the rest of the world what was happening on the ground during the uprisings.

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by explaining how to use social media in the same way that protesters used it during the Arab uprisings
B
by citing a report that examines why social media sites were a causal mechanism in the Arab uprisings
C
by examining the type of web links that were generated in nations that took part in the Arab uprisings
D
by describing how social media reported on events in the rest of the world during the Arab uprisings
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Read the two excerpts."Remembering to Never Forget: Dominican Republic's 'Parsley Massacre’” by Mark Memmott:Seventy-five years ago, thousands of Haitians were murdered in the Dominican Republic by a brutal dictator. It was one of the 20th Century's least-remembered acts of genocide.As many as 20,000 people are thought to have been killed on orders given by Rafael Trujillo. But the "parsley massacre" went mostly unnoticed outside Hispaniola. Even there, many Dominicans never knew about what happened in early October 1937. They were kept in the dark by Trujillo's henchmen."A Genetics of Justice” by Julia Alvarez:During my early teen years in this country, I knew very little about what was actually going on in the Dominican Republic. Whenever Ia situación on the island came up, my parents spoke in hushed voices. In December 1960, four months after our arrival, Time magazine reported the murder of the three Mirabal sisters, who along with their husbands had started the national underground Dominican Republic. My parents confiscated the magazine. To our many questions about what was going on, my mother always had the ready answer, "En boca cerrada no entran moscas." No flies fly into a closed mouth. Later, I found out that this very saying had been scratched on the lintel of the entrance of the SIM's torture center at La Cuarenta.

A
Memmott writes well after the events occurred, while Alvarez writes while the events are occurring.
B
Memmott tells about one event that occurred, while Alvarez tells about the dictatorship as a whole.
C
Memmott gives an anecdote to tell about the dictatorship’s cruelty, while Alvarez tells about her family.
D
Memmott presents facts about the dictatorship objectively, while Alvarez gives details about how it affected people.
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Read the excerpt from "A Genetics of Justice” by Julia Alvarez.My mother must have been intrigued. She knew nothing of the horrid crimes of the dictatorship, for her parents were afraid to say anything—even to their own children—against the regime. So, as a young girl, my mother must have thought of El Jefe as a kind of movie star. She must have wanted to meet the great man.

A
Her mother's image of the great man did not match reality.
B
Her mother loved movie stars when she was a young girl.
C
Her mother and her family kept secrets from one another.
D
Her family talked about the horrid crimes of the dictatorship.
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Study the image.

Question illustration
A
emotional appeal
B
ethical appeal
C
logical appeal
D
multimodal appeal
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Which statements provide the best evidence to support his claim? Select two options.

A
Buses and other public transportation run more frequently between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m.
B
If classes begin later, high schools will have to cut sporting activities.
C
When teenagers get enough sleep, fewer use drugs or become depressed.
D
Students who drive to school when tired are more likely to have accidents.
E
Classes at three-quarters of American public schools start before 8:30 a.m.
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Read the passage from Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech.Where four decades ago there was rubble, today in West Berlin there is the greatest industrial output of any city in Germany—busy office blocks, fine homes and apartments, proud avenues, and the spreading lawns of park land. Where a city's culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities, orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and museums. Where there was want, today there's abundance. . . . From devastation, from utter ruin, you Berliners have, in freedom, rebuilt a city that once again ranks as one of the greatest on earth. . . .In the 1950s, Khrushchev predicted: "We will bury you." But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind—too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor.

A
The Berlin Wall is a reminder of the past and of the war.
B
The United States is more powerful than the Soviet Union.
C
Democracy leads to greater prosperity than communism does.
D
Berlin is a thriving city that can boast of many accomplishments.
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Read the passage from A Room of One’s Own.For surely it is time that the effect of discouragement upon the mind of the artist should be measured, as I have seen a dairy company measure the effect of ordinary milk and Grade A milk upon the body of the rat. They set two rats in cages side by side, and of the two one was furtive, timid and small, and the other was glossy, bold and big. Now what food do we feed women as artists upon? I asked, remembering, I suppose, that dinner of prunes and custard.

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that women artists are treated like caged rats
B
that women artists become fearful in captivity
C
that women artists are often held back by their own creative instincts
D
that women artists do not receive the encouragement they need to succeed
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Read the excerpt from Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech.Where four decades ago there was rubble, today in West Berlin there is the greatest industrial output of any city in Germany—busy office blocks, fine homes and apartments, proud avenues, and the spreading lawns of park land. Where a city's culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities, orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and museums. Where there was want, today there's abundance.

A
Reagan uses repetition to focus attention on history.
B
Reagan uses hasty generalizations to encourage hope.
C
Reagan uses parallelism to compare the past to the present.
D
Reagan uses hyperbole to emphasize changes that have taken place.
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What evidence could the authors use to support their claim in the last sentence of this excerpt? Select three options.

A
a blog post from someone who attended an Arab Spring demonstration
B
a firsthand account from someone involved in a previous uprising
C
statistics on Twitter use in Tunisia both before and during the uprisings
D
data about Facebook use from a research study on the Arab Spring
E
a short story about citizen journalism during uprisings in the Middle East

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