Multiple Choice Creation Best Of

The author develops her line of reasoning about valedictorians mostly by...

• Showing how the decision about valedictorians can cause huge problems in schools.

• By describing what it takes to become one.

• By showing that being valedictorian is overrated

• Showing how being valedictorian can help you get into a good college

• Showing how the valedictorian race creates healthy competition.

On the first page of the essay the author relates a narrative experience primarily to...

• Show negative effects of valedictorians to the audience

• Suggest the situation is unfair to students

• Justify a claim she makes about student competition.

• Show proof of valedictorian being good

• To express doubt about schools who don't have valedictorian

Which of the following best states the author's thesis?

• Stress is a part of becoming valedictorian

• Parents should pay more attention to how their children feel

• Students should work hard if they want to become valedictorian

• Valedictorians are put under a lot of stress to become the best

• Being valedictorian is overrated

Which of the following identifies the exigence of the text?

• Being valedictorian was not being taken seriously

• Students would often compete for the valedictorian title which caused a lot of conflict in high schools

• Parents were forcing student to become valedictorians

• Principals were having trouble with choosing one student to be valedictorian

• Becoming valedictorian was too easy

Which of the following issues is the author primarily concerned about?

• Whether or not it's a good idea to have more than one valedictorian

• Whether or not schools should continue to have valedictorians and salutatorians

• Whether or not parents should complain about their child not being valedictorian

• Whether or not students should be punished for breaking the rules when it comes to being valedictorian

• Whether or not students should sue if they don't become valedictorian

By bring up Kylie Barker wanted to be valedictorian "pretty much forever" the author suggest that the title...

• doesn't live up to the excitement

• means too much for the community

• means a lot to high school students

• means too little to her

• means too much for her