Paraphrasing and Summarizing a Nonfiction Text: Hidden Figures
Question 6 • FL-1001375-English 3 CR
Which statement best summarizes the excerpt?
Answer
A
Social and scientific progress has continually improved since World War II, and segregation ended soon after World War II.
B
Although scientific progress in the 20th century was steady, social progress was less predictable; however, the movement toward desegregation became more consistent after World War II.
C
Atrocious Jim Crow laws suggested that racial equality might be impossible, but after World War II, society slowly began to pry bricks from the walls of segregation.
D
As the Jim Crow laws passed after the Civil War prove, scientific progress has been significantly more difficult to achieve than scientific progress.