Part 2: Summarizing an Author’s Viewpoint in an Informational Text

Question 1

Which detail from the text presents MacGregor’s viewpoint?“So our tea set is really a three-piece social history of nineteenth-century Britain.” “It does underline how much empire, consciously or not, eventually impacts on everybody in this country.”“If in the nineteenth century you are sitting at a mahogany table drinking tea with sugar, you are linked to virtually every continent on the globe.”“You are linked with the Royal Navy, which is guarding the sea routes between these continents . . .”

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B: “It does underline how much empire, consciously or not, eventually impacts on everybody in this country.”

Question 2

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A: a poem from the 1800s

Question 3

What is MacGregor’s viewpoint in this passage?The Great Wave shows that Japan is a powerful nation.One copy of The Great Wave is carved on a woodblock.The Great Wave includes a deep blue wave and the snowcapped Mount Fuji.There is more than one way to interpret The Great Wave.

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D: There is more than one way to interpret The Great Wave.

Question 4

Question 4

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A: It links the artwork directly to its Japanese artists.; C: It interprets the wave as a way of isolating Japan and as a means of travel and trade.

Question 5

How does the letter support MacGregor’s point?It demonstrates how willingly Japan agreed to trade with the United States.It gives an example of a different interpretation of the wave in the artwork. It provides an illustration of how the US Navy threatened to use force to open Japanese ports.It describes Japan’s reaction to the United States’ forceful letter.

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C: It provides an illustration of how the US Navy threatened to use force to open Japanese ports.

Question 6

Which detail from the text presents MacGregor’s viewpoint?

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B: “It does underline how much empire, consciously or not, eventually impacts on everybody in this country.”

Question 7

What is MacGregor’s viewpoint in this passage?

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D: There is more than one way to interpret The Great Wave.

Question 8

How does the quotation from Christine Guth support MacGregor’s point about The Great Wave?

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C: It interprets the wave as a way of isolating Japan and as a means of travel and trade.

Question 9

How does the letter support MacGregor’s point?

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C: It provides an illustration of how the US Navy threatened to use force to open Japanese ports.

Question 10

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C: to illustrate how tea replaced alcohol

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