Writing Workshop: Comparing Texts — Unit test

Question 1

best

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Leon turned to look up at the high blue mountains in the deep snow that reflected a faint red light from the west. He felt good because it was finished, and he was happy about the sprinkling of the holy water; now the old man could send them big thunderclouds for sure.

Question 2

Which best summarizes one central idea of the passage from "Mother Tongue"?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The way a person speaks English is not a good measure of intellectual ability.

Question 3

Read the excerpt from “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry.”For me, reading has always been a path toward liberation and fulfillment. To learn to read is to start down the road of liberation, a road which should be accessible to everyone. No one has the right to keep you from reading, and yet that is what is happening in many areas in this country today. There are those who think they know best what we should read. These censors are at work in all areas of our daily lives.Which type of rhetoric is used most in this excerpt to convince readers that censors have unjust motives?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

an appeal to emotion

Question 4

Read the excerpt from “In Response to Executive Order 9066.”I have always felt funny using chopsticksand my favorite food is hot dogs. Read the excerpt from “Mericans.” Ladies don’t come to church dressed in pants. And everybody knows men aren’t supposed to wear shorts.Which best describes the common idea in the excerpts?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Both reference American stereotypes.

Question 5

Lourdes buys a round box of sticky dates and considers the centuries of fratricide converging on this street corner in Brooklyn. She ponders the transmigrations from the southern latitudes, the millions moving north.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

looking up unfamiliar words in the sentence

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