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Look at this portion of the Social Media Policy for Widget Corp. What is the purpose of the numbered list?

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to show employees the procedure for being appropriate online
B
to highlight for employees the reasons they should go online
C
to tell employees what the are forbidden to do while they are online
D
to describe appropriate ways for employees to behave online
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Read the excerpt from Outcasts United.Teachers learned to call Luma when her players' parents couldn't be found or were at work. The families showed their gratitude by offering Luma tea and inviting her to dinner. Luma felt needed, and couldn't help but notice how much better this kind of work felt than running Ashton's. In fact, Ashton's was losing money—and fast. Luma was worried. She didn't want to disappoint her investors, and she had wanted more than anything to prove to her parents that she could succeed on her own. But lately, she had begun to wonder how much longer she could keep the place open.

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the families’
B
Luma’s
C
the investors’
D
the narrator’s
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Which excerpt from "Finding Unity in the Alabama Coal Mines” best supports the theme "When people work together through difficult times, they can impact future generations”?

A
Although racial separation was embraced by many, there were some individuals and organizations that worked toward unity of the races.
B
When the miners still continued to strike, Alabama Governor Braxton Bragg Comer sent in state militia members to break up the tent city, resulting in the end of the work stoppage.
C
Members of the UMWA, however, resisted the tradition of racial separation, believing that such divisions defeated their common goals.
D
Although the strike was defeated, the unity of the UMWA workers laid the groundwork for successful interracial organizing in the decades to come.
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Read the excerpt from "Finding Unity in the Alabama Coal Mines.”The UMWA’s efforts were so successful that they influenced practices in other trade unions as well. In 1901, arguments raised by UMWA members led to the repeal of discriminatory practices at the Birmingham Trades Council, the organization to which all unions in the city of Birmingham belonged.Two years later, in 1903, the coal companies began to assert significant power against the union, denying union contracts and instituting policies of hiring only non-union employees. In 1908, under the auspices of the Alabama Coal Operators Association, company owners voted to cut worker wages by seventeen percent.

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It helps the reader understand how the UMWA affected labor movements through history.
B
It helps the reader understand how the UMWA and the coal companies began working toward the same goal.
C
It helps the reader understand how the coal companies responded to the repeal of discriminatory practices.
D
It helps the reader understand how the coal companies eventually started following nondiscriminatory practices.
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Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall.”He moves in darkness as it seems to me,Not of woods only and the shade of trees.He will not go behind his father's saying,And he likes having thought of it so wellHe says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."

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Fences can be more interesting than one’s neighbors.
B
Neighbors can understand one another with little words.
C
Some people prefer to stay disconnected from their neighbors.
D
Fences help people connect with their neighbors.

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