Characters, Conflict, and Idioms in "Daughter of Invention" by Julia Alvarez — Unit test Answers

Read the excerpt from Silent Spring.In the gutters under the eaves and between the shingles of the roofs, a white granular powder still showed a few patches; some weeks before it had fallen like snow upon the roofs and the lawns, the fields and streams.

EthosLogosPathosEros

Read the excerpt from "A Case for Waawaatesi."It’s not just owls. It’s things like frogs, who make it their business to croak at night, particularly when mating. Artificial lights disrupt their mojo and that means less frogs and reduced populations. Sea turtle babies get confused, and migrating birds get confused when they fly with the stars.

Which best states a comparison of the tones used in these excerpts?

Which words and phrases from the excerpt best support the author’s purpose of creating a sense of alarm about the environment? Select four options.

Read the excerpt from Silent Spring.On the farms the hens brooded, but no chicks hatched. The farmers complained that they were unable to raise any pigs—the litters were small and the young survived only a few days. The apple trees were coming into bloom but no bees droned among the blossoms, so there was no pollination and there would be no fruit.

“so attractive”“now lined with”“withered vegetation”“as though swept”

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Read the excerpt from Silent Spring.It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh.

Which word best describes the tone used in both excerpts?

Which excerpt from Winona LaDuke’s "A Case for Waawaatesi” best appeals to readers’ logic?

Which statements describe the poem? Select three options.