AnswersSLAE 26-27 ENGLISH 12.1Hamlet, Part 8: Themes

Satire in Swift's "A Modest Proposal" Answers

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Read the paragraph.Congratulations on your eighteenth birthday and your graduation! Now what? Well, you can vote in the next election. This will allow your opinions to be heard and reflected in our country’s government. You can look around your community and observe roads, parks, and public places with new eyes. You might notice improvements that could be proposed. Or you might take a minute to pick up litter that someone else has left behind. As an adult, as a tax-paying citizen, embrace opportunities to contribute to the greater good.

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birthday celebrations
B
voting rights
C
the environment
D
civic responsibility
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Read the paragraph.When young people are encouraged to take risks, they build confidence in their own decision-making skills and capabilities. Consider Winston, a ninth grader willing to try out for a varsity sport or a competitive performance band. He risks failure and personal embarrassment, but he learns the tryout process. He may also learn his personal strengths and shortcomings. Whether he is met with success or not, the risk-taking experience fosters self-reflection and growth.

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Young students should compete in varsity athletics.
B
Students learn about themselves by taking risks.
C
Students benefit from high-level competition.
D
Young students are nervous during tryouts.
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Read the excerpt from A History of Women’s Suffrage by Stanton, Anthony, and Gage.It would be nearer the truth to say the [gender] difference indicates different duties in the same sphere, seeing that man and woman were evidently made for each other, and have shown equal capacity in the ordinary range of human duties. In governing nations, leading armies, piloting ships across the sea, rowing life-boats in terrific gales; in art, science, invention, literature, woman has proved herself the complement of man in the world of thought and action. This difference does not compel us to spread our tables with different food for man and woman, nor to provide in our common schools a different course of study for boys and girls. Sex pervades all nature, yet the male and female tree and vine and shrub rejoice in the same sunshine and shade. The earth and air are free to all the fruits and flowers, yet each absorbs what best ensures its growth.

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The differences between men and women allow them to balance one another, and they should be considered as equal as they are in nature.
B
There are differences between men and women that should be more considered when determining what boys and girls learn in school.
C
Men and women are different, and they perform different duties throughout history, school, and nature.
D
Men and women have served different roles in government and society, but women will soon prove their superiority when they have rights.
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How can the topic "students and cell phones” be presented as an argument?

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Recent surveys suggest that over 70 percent of all American students ages 14–17 own a cell phone.
B
Students at Omega High School have expressed interest in having access to their phones during school hours.
C
School policies regarding cell-phone usage varies by region and is the source of considerable debate.
D
Cell-phone usage should be embraced at public schools as a means of information acquisition.
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Read the excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.In this style, argue tyrants of every denomination, from the weak king to the weak father of a family; they are all eager to crush reason; yet always assert that they usurp its throne only to be useful. Do you not act a similar part, when you force all women, by denying them civil and political rights, to remain immured in their families groping in the dark? For surely, Sir, you will not assert, that a duty can be binding which is not founded on reason?

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By refusing women rights, men are enslaving women in their current roles.
B
Men strive to be kings and fathers because they prefer leadership roles.
C
By ignoring women’s demands, men are weakening the family structure.
D
Women are toiling in the dark, unaware of new laws that are being considered.
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Read the excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.Consider, Sir, dispassionately, these observations—for a glimpse of this truth seemed to open before you when you observed, 'that to see one half of the human race excluded by the other from all participation of government, was a political phænomenon that, according to abstract principles, it was impossible to explain.' If so, on what does your constitution rest? If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of woman, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

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If men exclude women from government, then there are fewer voters.
B
If people want government to be fair, they should adopt a constitution.
C
If men discuss politics, then women should participate in the conversation.
D
If the Constitution supports men’s rights, it should support women’s rights, too.
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Which statements describe what is found in a summary of a text? Select 4 options.The controlling idea is included.Central ideas are stated in one’s own words.Concepts are presented in a logical order.Ideas are stated subjectively to include the writer’s opinion.Paraphrasing creates a condensed version of the text.

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The controlling idea is included.
B
Central ideas are stated in one’s own words.
C
Concepts are presented in a logical order.
D
Ideas are stated subjectively to include the writer’s opinion.
E
Paraphrasing creates a condensed version of the text.
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Read the excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places. And, now that more equitable laws are forming your citizens, marriage may become more sacred: your young men may choose wives from motives of affection, and your maidens allow love to root out vanity.

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In proper societies, there are strict laws about marriage.
B
Men will fall into submission when their wives are well educated.
C
In equal roles, men and women will establish more meaningful marriages.
D
Men and women should marry for reasons other than love and affection.
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electricityconservationfinanceshorticulture

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electricity
B
conservation
C
finances
D
horticulture
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How can the topic "homework for students” be presented as an argument?

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Homework is an effective way to strengthen students’ understanding of new concepts.
B
Homework is any school assignment completed at home without a teacher’s assistance.
C
Many teachers assign nightly homework to students in elementary, middle, and high school.
D
Modern teachers communicate using digital means, such as blogs, to post students’ homework assignments.

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