Persuasion in Susan B. Anthony's "On Women's Right to Vote" — Unit test Answers

Read these two excerpts from The American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793.Excerpt A: Those returning found their city a changed place. The streets were remarkably clean, for one thing. The trash and garbage had been swept away; dead animals—cats, dogs, birds, and pigs—had been removed. Gone, too, were the beggars and homeless children.Excerpt B: Aside from the tiny red flags stuck on houses, there was no outward sign of the fever anywhere.Which of the mayor's orders in Fever 1793 connects to the historical accounts detailed in these excerpts?

The most important idea in a text is the

Which statement about "My Escape from Slavery” and "Crossing the River” is true?

Read this excerpt from the end of "The Land of Laughter.”And sometimes they thought of the Land of Riches, and said, "Ah! well"; and sometimes of the Land of Power, and sighed a little; and sometimes of the Land of Sacrifice—and their eyes were wistful. But they soon forgot, and laughed again.

Read this excerpt from "The People Could Fly."Toby come over and spoke words to the fallen one. The words of ancient Africa once heard are never remembered completely. The young man forgot them as soon as he heard them. They went way inside him. He got up and rolled over on the air. He rode it awhile. And he flew away.Which historical fact is supported by this excerpt?

Which most likely explains why the story "Brer Rabbit’s Adventure” was told?

How does the author use tone throughout Exploring the Titanic to help the reader understand the text?

Read this excerpt from "The People Could Fly.”Another and another fell from the heat. Toby was there. He cried out to the fallen and reached his arms out to them. "Kum kunka yali, kum . . . tambe!” Whispers and sighs. And they too rose on the air. They rode the hot breezes. The ones flyin were black and shinin sticks, wheelin above the head of the Overseer. They crossed the rows, the fields, the fences, the streams, and were away. "Seize the old man!” cried the Overseer. "I heard him say the magic words. Seize him!” The one callin himself Master come runnin. The Driver got his whip ready to curl around old Toby and tie him up. The slaveowner took his hip gun from its place. He meant to kill old, black Toby. But Toby just laughed. Say he threw back his head and said, "Hee, hee! Don’t you know who I am? Don’t you know some of us in this field?” He said it to their faces. "We are ones who fly!” Read this excerpt from "My Escape from Slavery.”But I had a friend—a sailor—who owned a sailor’s protection, which answered somewhat the purpose of free papers—describing his person, and certifying to the fact that he was a free American sailor. The instrument had at its head the American eagle, which gave it the appearance at once of an authorized document.Both the fictional text in "The People Could Fly” and nonfictional text in "My Escape from Slavery” show that:

To find the central idea, a reader should ask

How is the fictional text in "The People Could Fly” different from the nonfictional text in "Crossing the River”?

In "The Land of Laughter,” when the author repeats the phrase "and sometimes” while the main characters think about the other lands, what does it most likely show about the characters?

In "The Land of Laughter,” how do readers most likely feel when the lady sends the boys away because they cannot smile?

Read the excerpt from "The People Could Fly.”Say the people who could fly kept their power, although they shed their wings. They kept their secret magic in the land of slavery. They looked the same as the other people from Africa who had been coming over, who had dark skin. Say you couldn’t tell anymore one who could fly from one who couldn’t.

Read this excerpt from The American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793.Most doctors had predicted the fever would end when the cold weather returned. Almost all epidemics followed the same pattern, striking during warm weather, disappearing with the first hard frost. Daniel Defoe, in recording the end of the Black Death that visited London in 1665, wrote that "the winter weather came on apace [and] most of those that had fallen sick recovered, and the health of the city began to return." Which excerpt from Fever 1793 connects to the historical account detailed in the excerpt?