Read the excerpt from "Lise Marie de Baissac."
in Normandy, Baissac pretended to be a refugee from Paris
living in the house of a schoolmaster. There, she helped to
set up more resistance groups and organize sabotage
actions. Again traveling by bicycle, she maintained secret
communications between groups and transported supplies.
This was extremely dangerous work. Often covering forty
miles in a single day, she carried arms and explosives as
well as information about targets. Her actions, along with
those of her colleagues, often delayed the arrival of
German reinforcements to the front lines of battle.
Which best describes the central idea of this paragraph?
When she lived in Normandy, Baissac assumed a
different identity in order to complete important work
while she lived there.
Baissac's goal was to get in the way of German troop
movement, and she was often successful when she
worked with resistance groups
Baissac did significant work as a spy when she lived in
Normandy, sometimes traveling by bicycle to complete
her tasks
As a spy in Normandy, Baissac performed a variety of
important and sometimes dangerous tasks in order to
get in the way of German troops

Read the passage. excerpt from "why equal pay is worth fighting for" by senator elizabeth warren, april 17, 2014 i honestly can't believe that we're still arguing over equal pay in 2014. when i started teaching elementary school after college, the public school district didn't hide the fact that it had two pay scales: one for men and one for women. women have made incredible strides since then. but 40 years later, we're still debating equal pay for equal work. women today still earn only 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, and they're taking a hit in nearly every occupation. bloomberg analyzed census data and found that median earnings for women were lower than those for men in 264 of 265 major occupation categories. in 99.6 percent of occupations, men get paid more than women. that's not an accident; that's discrimination. the effects of this discrimination are real, and they are long lasting. today, more young women go to college than men, but unequal pay makes it harder for them to pay back student loans. pay inequality also means a tougher retirement for women. . for middle-class families today, it usually takes two incomes to get by, and many families depend as much on mom's salary as they do on dad's, if not more. women are the main breadwinners, or joint breadwinners, in two-thirds of the families across the country, and pay discrimination makes it that much harder for these families to stay afloat. women are ready to fight back against pay discrimination, but it's not easy. today, a woman can get fired for asking the guy across the hall how much money he makes. here in the senate, sen. barbara mikulski (d-md.) introduced the paycheck fairness act to give women the tools to combat wage discrimination. it would ensure that salary differences have something to do with the actual job that they are doing, and not just because they are women. senator warren states that the effects of pay discrimination are long-lasting. is this a valid argument supported by accurate evidence? no; warren weakens her point by claiming that the paycheck fairness act would "give women the tools to combat wage discrimination." yes; warren supports her point by noting, "for middle-class families today, it usually takes two incomes to get by." yes; warren supports her point by noting, "pay inequality also means a tougher retirement for women." no; warren weakens her point by noting, "today, a woman can get fired for asking the guy across the hall how much money he makes."