AnswersAZ-English Language Arts 11 B-CRResearch Workshop: Writing and Presenting the Argumentative Essay, Part 1

Research Workshop: Writing and Presenting the Argumentative Essay, Part 1 — Cumulative exam Answers

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Read the excerpt from Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea.No, let us go no further. Decency and custom forbid it. I said it earlier, when speaking of my grandfather: In Jewish tradition a man’s death belongs to him alone. Let the gas chambers remain closed to prying eyes, and to the imagination. We will never know all that happened behind those doors of steel.Read the text and study the images from Spiegelman’s Maus.Which theme is addressed in both excerpts?

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Inexperience can sometimes lead to misunderstanding.
B
It’s important to follow tradition regardless of circumstance.
C
Some truths are too difficult to fathom if one has not experienced them.
D
There are times when one must be able to see in order to believe.
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Read the excerpt from Other Words for Home.Today the air is so soupy that it feels like I am living inside someone else’s mouth. I wake up at the sound of the first adhan, the muezzin’s voice echoing through my room. But I do not get up to pray. Instead I roll over and press my face into my pillow and pray for cool air and sleep.Other Words For Home by Jasmine Warga Text Copyright (c) 2019 by Jasmine Warga. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers

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a bedroom on a muggy summer day
B
a lively mosque in the morning
C
a warm bed during a cool winter
D
a humid outdoor public square
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Which excerpt from part one of Trifles most develops the motives of the County Attorney?

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COUNTY ATTORNEY. Somebody should have been left here yesterday.
B
COUNTY ATTORNEY. How did she seem to feel about your coming?
C
COUNTY ATTORNEY. (To the Sheriff.) You’re convinced that there was nothing important here-—nothing that would point to any motive?
D
COUNTY ATTORNEY (with the gallantry of a young politician). And yet, for all their worries, what would we do without the ladies?
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What is a counterclaim in an argumentative speech?

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A counterclaim is a possible objection to the thesis.
B
A counterclaim is a supporting detail, such as statistics.
C
A counterclaim is the concluding statement of a speech.
D
A counterclaim is an umbrella statement for the argument.
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Read the sentence.The fake, counterfeit money, which isn't valid, was discovered in the crime investigation.What is the best way to revise this sentence to eliminate wordiness?

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The money is not valid because it was counterfeit and discovered in the crime investigation.
B
The counterfeit money was discovered in the crime investigation.
C
Discovered in the crime investigation, the counterfeit money was fake.
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The sentence is correct as written.

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