QA3 Review

How well does the author support the claim that restrictions meant to inhibit the spread of the disease may not be ethical on page 3?

• He makes an emotional appeal but does not provide evidence to support the effects of restrictions.

• He describes research that has been conducted on the effects of quarantines in enough detail to strongly support his claim.

• He provides specific support for his claim but fails to acknowledge arguments that would call that support into question.

• He provides examples of positive and negative effects of zoos but does not provide specific support that one argument outweighs the other.

What is the central idea of the passage?

• Quarantines usually cause suffering to a community.

• Quarantines provide ways for businesses and the government to continue working during an epidemic.

• While quarantines have benefits, arguments can also be made against them.

• While quarantines may slow the spread of a disease, the impact they have on the economy is not worth it.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which sentence supports the idea that some communities have taken restrictions on traveling to the extreme?

• For Nada Sun, who was visiting family in Wenzhou, a coastal city in Zhejiang, a health scare turned into a mandatory quarantine.

• In the countryside, villages have been gated off with vehicles, tents and other improvised barriers.

• Li Jing, 40, an associate professor of sociology at Zhejiang University in the eastern city of Hangzhou, was almost barred from taking her husband to a hospital recently after he choked on a fish bone during dinner.

• Coming home from out of town, they say, they were asked to produce documents from landlords and employers or be left on the street.

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

How does the author use rhetoric to advance his purpose?

• He uses anecdotes to encourage readers to sympathize with those who are quarantined.

• He uses metaphors that compare quarantines to animals in a zoo.

• He uses quotations and data to provide a balanced look at the effects of the virus.

• He contrasts what children say about quarantines with true information to demonstrate misconceptions about quarantines.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

“China’s prevention efforts are being led by its myriad neighborhood committees, which typically serve as a go-between for residents and the local authorities.” What does the word myriad mean as it is used in this sentence?

• multiple and varied

• intermediary

• community

• district

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

How do the authors develop the idea that having local authorities decide policies largely on their own can be dangerous?

• They establish credibility as scientists who have studied previous outbreaks.

• They equally give unbiased information.

• They present multiple scenarios so that the audience can make an informed decision.

• They cite experts and use anecdotes to demonstrate both appeals to logic and emotion.

According to the authors, what is the purpose of “one of the biggest social campaigns in history”?

• to get people to spend more money to stimulate the economy

• to keep people away from each other and slow the spread of the virus

• to introduce people to neighbors they may not be familiar with

• to build a social platform through an app that tracks who has been infected with the coronavirus

Excerpt from Two Ways of Seeing a River by Mark Twain (1883)

Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something too. I had lost something which could never be restored to me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry had gone out of the majestic river! I still keep in mind a certain wonderful sunset which I witnessed when steamboating was new to me. . .There were graceful curves, reflected images, woody heights, soft distances, and over the whole scene, far and near, the dissolving lights drifted steadily, enriching it, every passing moment, with new marvels of coloring.

Which detail refines the idea that he “had lost something which could never be restored”?

• Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition.

• But I had lost something too.

• . . .which I witnessed when steamboating was new to me. . .

• . . .graceful curves, reflected images, woody heights, soft distances, and over the whole scene, far and near, the dissolving lights drifted steadily, enriching it, every passing moment, with new marvels of coloring.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

excerpt from I have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr. August 28, 1963

I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and sisters and brothers. I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

What effect does King’s use of rhetoric create?

• He appeals to emotion through word choice by using religious language.

• He appeals to logic using evidence and facts.

• He uses figurative language, creating a vivid picture in the audience’s minds.

• He uses his expertise to establish credibility.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3