Quiz 3.05 Review

Read the sentence from "Caring for Vets Should Be National Duty."

"In advance of this year's Veterans Day, on Nov. 11, the legions of men and women who have served in our nation's military received some welcoming news: Congress finally agree to fund the VA

Mission Act, which since its June passage had been mired in budgetary disputes."

What is the connotative meaning of the word welcoming as it is used in this sentence?

• inviting

• encouraging

• thanking

• captivating

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Why does the author describe the Wounded Warrior Project?

Select two correct answers.

• to use as an example of an organization that provides the type of care that wounded veterans need

• to provide statistics as evidence for the amount of money needed to fund the VA

• to compare how the Wounded Warrior Project is funded to how the VA is funded

• to tell an anecdote to help readers connect to the plight of wounded veterans

• to explain why the VA does not need to provide mental health care to wounded veterans

Read this paragraph from the article, "Caring for Vets Should Be National Duty."

Truly comprehensive care would not only fix the VA

but expand it to empower injured veterans with economic opportunities, peer-to-peer engagement, and group-centric mental health programs that utilize injured veterans' greatest tool for overcoming battle-born trauma: each other.

Which word best describes the tone of the paragraph?

• disappointed

• forceful

• compassionate

• reassuring

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Read this paragraph from "Caring for Vets Should Be National Duty."

Of course, nonprofit organizations like the Wounded Warrior Project have been offering these life-affirming tools for well over a decade. But why should it be up to private charities to take care of those who battled and bled for their country?

Which word best describes the tone of the paragraph?

• condescending

• frustrated

• irate

• celebratory

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In the article "Caring for Vets Should Be National Duty," what can be inferred about veterans returning from war?

• Their lives are often difficult because of problems caused by fighting in a war.

• They are given plenty of guidance on how to access programs aimed at helping them.

• They have access to numerous private programs that can help them readjust to civilian life.

• They usually stay in the military because of a lack of resources available to help them.

Which statements from “Caring for Vets Should Be National Duty” can be cited as evidence that outside organizations are doing a better job of supporting the veterans than the government?

• In a political landscape where we can’t seem to agree on anything, it’s likely that anyone—Democrat or Republication—would be challenged to find a single service provided by charities like the Wounded Warrior Project that doesn’t deserve the full financial backing of the U.S. government.

• Our wounded veterans deserve not only exemplary health care, but all the tools they need to re-assimilate into civilian life despite missing limbs or shattered psyches.

• Many need assistance outside the doctor’s office, including finding suitable employment in an economy that, though humming for many, is far from ideal for individuals with disabilities, whose unemployment rate is more than double the national average.

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How does the article "Caring for Vets Should Be National Duty," develop the central ideas that the VA is unequipped to deal with its patient load and that it must make it easier for patients to receive care?

• by describing the complaints against the VA

  and stating that veterans should not have to beg for proper treatment

• by describing the types of injuries war veterans have experienced and insisting that Americans must do more fundraising to care for them

• by providing statistics on the number of veterans unable to receive care and laying out a plan for the VA to increase the number of care providers

• by providing facts about the type of care veterans should be receiving and giving examples of how the VA

  has failed to complete their mission

How does the article "Caring for Vets Should Be National Duty" develop the central ideas that the VA Mission Act is a step in the right direction and that the law will not be enough to improve care for veterans?

• by describing the conditions that led to the law being passed and including statistics that show the law will fail

• by explaining how the law was passed and describing what the next law passed should include

• by explaining how many people will benefit from the law and describing how some people will not benefit

• by explaining how the law will improve conditions for veterans and emphasizing the shortcomings of the law

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Part A

In the article "Caring for Vets Should Be National Duty," what inference can be made regarding the implementation of the VA

Mission Act?

• Politicians disagreed on where the money to fund the law should come from.

• Politicians disagreed on whether the law should be funded.

• The VA wanted more money than politicians were willing to give to fund the law.

• The VA was undecided on how the money allotted by the law should be spent.

Which evidence best supports the answer in Part A (Politicians disagreed on where the money to fund the law should come from)?

Select the two correct answers.

• "In advance of this year’s Veterans Day, on Nov. 11, the legions of men and women who have served in our nation’s military received some welcoming news: Congress finally agreed to fund the VA

  Mission Act, which since its June passage had been mired in budgetary disputes."

• "In a political landscape where we can’t seem to agree on anything, it’s likely that anyone—Democrat or Republican—would be challenged to find a single service provided by charities like the Wounded Warrior Project that doesn’t deserve the full financial backing of the U.S. government."

• "Our wounded veterans deserve not only exemplary health care, but all the tools they need to re-assimilate into civilian life despite missing limbs or shattered psyches."

• "Tens of thousands of men and women have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with permanent physical handicaps and deep emotional scars—wounds they will be coping with for the rest of their lives."

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