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1.05 Quiz: Life Stories 2
Part B
Select the excerpt that best supports the answer in Part A
"At Lincoln, making us into Americans did not mean scrubbing away what made us originally foreign. The teachers called
O us as our parents did, or as close as they could pronounce our names in Spanish or Japanese. No one was ever scolded
or punished for speaking in his native tongue on the playground."
"What Miss Hopley said to us we did not know but we saw in her eyes a warm welcome and when she took off her glasses
O and straightened up she smiled wholeheartedly, like Mrs. Dodson. We were, of course, saying nothing, only catching the
friendliness of her voice and the sparkle in her eyes while she said words we did not understand."
"During the next few weeks Miss Ryan overcame my fears of tall, energetic teachers as she bent over my desk to help me
with a word in the pre-primer. Step by step, she loosened me and my classmates from the safe anchorage of the desks for
recitations at the blackboard and consultations at her desk-
"Like ito and several other first graders who did not know English, I received private lessons from Miss Ryan in the closet
a narrow hall off the classroom with a door at each end. Next to one of these doors Miss Ryan placed a large chair for
herself and a small one for me."

1. drag the central argument paine presents and its two claims to complete the chart. argument claims america may have flourished more had it not been under the power of any european country. america may have flourished under britain in the past, but there is no guarantee that it will continue to flourish in the future. america will continue to flourish as long as the essential food products it sells are bought and eaten in europe. the american colonies will no longer flourish when britain makes war against them. britain's king has shown himself to be prejudiced against the colonies, rather than wanting them to flourish.

2.select the sentence in this passage that can be classified as a false statement.

although few humans per year are attacked by polar bears, any individual attack can be terrifying and even fatal. the warming of arctic regions has allowed the intrusion of humans into the polar bears’ habitat, increasing the danger of harmful contacts. remaining alert and using precautions can humans avoid a negative encounter with a polar bear. traveling together and staying close to the group can humans avoid bear attacks. certain weapons, including nonlethal ones such as pepper spray, are effective against polar bears. once a bear has decided to attack, however, nothing can be done.

3.select the sentence in this passage that demonstrates the fallacy of making an extreme either-or claim.

the civil war was the bloodiest conflict in the history of the united states. more than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives. the fighting took place in many different cities and throughout the countryside. the wounded often suffered acute pain while in the field hospitals. they all should have asked for better care. william hammond, the surgeon general of the union army, created a new system of sanitary field care. if people do not accept hammond as the most important person from the civil war, they have no understanding of the war.

a question like this requires the excerpt to be included in order to answer the question.

the third answer is right : )

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