Text Evidence

Evidence Questions

A claim will be made and you have to find the fitting evidence from the chart.

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Within the text there will be a claim made and it will be up to you to find the perfect piece of evidence to support it.

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Evidence Questions

Multiple Choice

Many archaeologists will tell you that categorizing excavated fragments of pottery by style, period,and what objects they belong to relies not only onstandard criteria, but also on instinct developed over years of practice. In a recent study, however,researchers trained a deep-learning computer modelon thousands of images of pottery fragments and found that it could categorize them as accurately as ateam of expert archaeologists. Some archaeologists have expressed concern that they might be replaced by such computer models, but the researchers claim that outcome is highly unlikely.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support the researchers’ claim?

• In the researchers’ study, the model was able to categorize the pottery fragments much more quickly than the archaeologists could.

• In the researchers’ study, neither the model northe archaeologists were able to accurately categorize all the pottery fragments that were presented.

• A survey of archaeologists showed that categorizing pottery fragments limits the amount of time they can dedicate to other important tasks that only human experts can do.

• A survey of archaeologists showed that few of them received dedicated training in how toproperly categorize pottery fragments.

Text Evidence

​Tips:

• Differentiate the answers.

• Skim to find the key sentence in the Text.

• Find keywords in answers.

• Find the "Best choice" from good choices.

Multiple Choice

Born in 1891 to a Quechua-speaking family in the Andes Mountains of Peru, Martín Chambi is today considered to be one of the most renowned figures ofLatin American photography. In a paper for an art history class, a student claims that Chambi’s photographs have considerable ethnographic value—in his work, Chambi was able to capture diverse elements of Peruvian society, representing his subjects with both dignity and authenticity.

Which finding, if true, would most directly supportthe student’s claim?

• Chambi took many commissioned portraits ofwealthy Peruvians, but he also producedhundreds of images carefully documenting thepeoples, sites, and customs of Indigenouscommunities of the Andes.

• Chambi’s photographs demonstrate a high levelof technical skill, as seen in his strategic use ofillumination to create dramatic light and shadowcontrasts.

• During his lifetime, Chambi was known andcelebrated both within and outside his nativePeru, as his work was published in places likeArgentina, Spain, and Mexico

• Some of the peoples and places Chambiphotographed had long been popular subjectsfor Peruvian photographers.

Multiple Choice

12“To You” is an 1856 poem by Walt Whitman. In the poem, Whitman suggests that readers, whom he addresses directly, have not fully understood themselves, writing, ______

Which quotation from “To You” most effectively illustrates the claim?

• “You have not known what you are, you have slumber’d upon yourself / all your life, / Your eyelids have been the same as closed most of thetime.

• “These immense meadows, these interminable rivers, you are immense / and interminable as they.”

• “I should have made my way straight to you long ago, / I should have blabb’d nothing but you, I should have chanted nothing / but you.”

• “I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you, / None has understood you, but I understand you.

​Poem Evidence

This is similar to regular text evidence question however, the question and answer is more abstract. The same tips apply and it is just a harder but faster exercise.

• find the key "description".

• differentiate the tones.

Multiple Choice

O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by Willa Cather. In the novel, Cather portrays Alexandra Bergson as havinga deep emotional connection to her natural surroundings: _______

Which quotation from O Pioneers! most effectively illustrates the claim?

• “She had never known before how much the country meant to her. The chirping of the insects down in the long grass had been like the sweetest music. She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail and the plover and all the little wild things that crooned or buzzed in the sun. Under the long shaggy ridges, she felt the future stirring.”

• “Alexandra talked to the men about their crops and to the women about their poultry. She spent a whole day with one young farmer who had been away at school, and who was experimenting with a new kind of clover hay. She learned a great deal."

• “Alexandra drove off alone. The rattle of herwagon was lost in the howling of the wind, but her lantern, held firmly between her feet, made a moving point of light along the highway, going deeper and deeper into the dark country."

• “It was Alexandra who read the papers and followed the markets, and who learned by the mistakes of their neighbors. It was Alexandra who could always tell about what it had cost to fatten each steer, and who could guess the weightof a hog before it went on the scales closer thanJohn Bergson [her father] himself.”

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Multiple Choice

Jan Gimsa, Robert Sleigh, and Ulrike Gimsa have hypothesized that the sail-like structure running down the back of the dinosaur Spinosaurus aegyptiacus improved the animal’s success in underwater pursuits of prey species capable of making quick, evasive movements. To evaluate their hypothesis, a second team of researchers constructed two battery-powered mechanical models of S. aegyptiacus, one with a sail and one without, and subjected the models to a series of identical tests in a water-filled tank.

Which finding from the model tests, if true, would most strongly support Gimsa and colleagues’ hypothesis?

• The model with a sail took significantly longer to travel a specified distance while submerged than the model without a sail did.

• The model with a sail displaced significantly more water while submerged than the model without a sail did.

• The model with a sail had significantly less battery power remaining after completing the tests than the model without a sail did.

• The model with a sail took significantly less time to complete a sharp turn while submerged than the model without a sail did.

Multiple Choice

“Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office-Seeker” is a 1900 short story by Paul Laurence Dunbar. In the story, the narrator describes Mr. Cornelius Johnson’s appearance as conveying his exaggerated sense of his importance: ______

Which quotation from “Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office-Seeker” most effectively illustrates the claim?

• “He carried himself always as if he were passing under his own triumphal arch.”

• “The grey Prince Albert was scrupulously buttoned about his form, and a shiny top hat replaced the felt of the afternoon.”

• “Mr. Cornelius Johnson always spoke in a large and important tone.”

• “It was a beautiful day in balmy May and the sun shone pleasantly on Mr. Cornelius Johnson’s very spruce Prince Albert suit of grey as he alighted from the train in Washington.”

Multiple Choice

Several studies of sediment (e.g., dirt, pieces of rock, etc.) in streams have shown an inverse correlation between sediment grain size and downstream distance from the primary sediment source, suggesting that stream length has a sorting effect on sediment. In a study of sediment sampled at more than a dozen sites in Alpine streams, however, geologists Camille Litty and Fritz Schlunegger found that cross-site variations in grain size were not associated with differences in downstream distance, though they did not conclude that downstream distance is irrelevant to grain size. Rather, they concluded that sediment influx in these streams may have been sufficiently spatially diffuse to prevent the typical sorting effect from being observed.

Which finding about the streams in the study, if true, would most directly support Litty and Schlunegger's conclusion?

• The streams contain several types of sediment that are not typically found in streams where the sorting effect has been demonstrated.

• "The streams are fed by multiple tributaries that carry significant volumes of sediment and that enter the streams downstream of the sampling sites.

• The streams mostly originate from the same source, but their lengths vary considerably due to the different courses they take.

• The streams regularly experience portions of their banks collapsing into the water at multiple points upstream of the sampling sites.

Multiple Choice

Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Héctor Tobar has built a multifaceted career as both a journalist and an author of short stories and novels. In an essay about Tobar's work, a student claims that Tobar blends his areas of expertise by applying journalism techniques to his creation of works of fiction.

Which quotation from a literary critic best supports the student's claim?

• For one novel, an imagined account of a real person's global travels, Tobar approached his subject like a reporter, interviewing people the man had met along the way and researching the man's own writings.

• Tobar got his start as a volunteer for El Tecolote, a community newspaper in San Francisco, and wrote for newspapers for years before earning a degree in creative writing and starting to publish works of fiction.

• Many of Tobar's notable nonfiction articles are marked by the writer's use of techniques usually associated with fiction, such as complex narrative structures and the incorporation of symbolism.

• The protagonist of Tobar's third novel is a man who wants to be a novelist and keeps notes about interesting people he encounters so he can use them when developing characters for his stories.

Multiple Choice

The Rock and the Sea is an 1893 poem by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In the poem, a rock is portrayed as intending to confront and restrain the sea: ______ Which quotation from "The Rock and the Sea" most effectively illustrates the claim?

• I am the Rock. Black midnight falls; / The terrible breakers rise like walls; / With curling lips and gleaming teeth / They plunge and tear at my bones beneath.

• I am the Sea. The earth I sway; / Granite to me is potter's clay; / Under the touch of my careless waves / It rises in turrets and sinks in caves.

• I am the Sea. I hold the land / As one holds an apple in his hand, / Hold it fast with sleepless eyes, / Watching the continents sink and rise.

• I am the Rock, presumptuous Sea! / I am set to encounter thee. / Angry and loud or gentle and still, / I am set here to limit thy power, and I will!

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