Using Punctuation — Unit test

Question 1

Read the excerpt from Hurston’s “John Redding Goes to Sea.”Matty Redding, John's mother, was setting the table for supper. She was a small wiry woman with large eyes that might have been beautiful when she was young, but too much weeping had left them watery and weak.Which best describes the intent of Hurston’s use of voice as it relates to cultural experience?

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Hurston highlights the hardships that women in the community are experiencing through her description of Matty Redding.

Question 2

Read the excerpt from Gelissen’s Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz.“I have a favor to ask of you, Andrzej . . . This is very difficult for me, but I must ask. It is no longer safe in Tylicz for Rena. Her mother and I are worried for her safety every day.” Look at this image from Art Spiegelman’s Maus.What idea is related in both excerpts?

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the sense of fearful hesitancy people experienced while living under the oppression of Nazis fascism during the Holocaust

Question 3

Read the passage from "Optimism.”A poet once said I must be happy because I did not see the bare, cold present, but lived in a beautiful dream. I do live in a beautiful dream; but that dream is the actual, the present,—not cold, but warm; not bare, but furnished with a thousand blessings. The very evil which the poet supposed would be a cruel disillusionment is necessary to the fullest knowledge of joy.

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rebuttal.

Question 4

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example

Question 5

Keller’s reason for writing "Optimism” is called her

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purpose.

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