4.3 Rdg. Claims and Evidence

1. 1.         The author introduces her essay by relating an anecdote from her vacation in France (paragraphs 1 and 2) primarily to

• A. praise the widespread custom of European napping

• B. confirm her audience’s suspicion that napping is inefficient

• C. offer advice to Americans traveling in rural France

• D. establish a cultural comparison for her argument about napping

• E. explain the daily routine of a French lockkeeper

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2. Which of the following statements most directly expresses the author’s thesis in the passage?

• A. “Americans are afraid of naps.” (paragraph 3)

• B. “Napping is too luxurious.” (paragraph 4, sentence 1)

• C. “[Napping] seems to be a natural inclination.” (paragraph 4, sentence 2)

• D. “Fighting off natural inclinations is a major Puritan virtue.” (paragraph 4, sentence 4)

• E. “[T]he process of falling asleep in the afternoon is quite different from bedtime sleep.” (paragraph 5, sentence 2)

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3. In the second paragraph, the author compares his relationships with mathematics and English primarily to

• A. suggest how a desire to meet his teachers’ expectations influenced the author’s academic interests

• B. imply that his determination to excel in mathematics was linked to a need to impress his classmates

• C. indicate that his approach to both subjects was equally informed by his love of language

• D. demonstrate the advantages of a multidisciplinary approach to high school education

• E. explain how his awareness of a cultural stereotype influenced his preference for one subject over the other

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4. Which of the following statements from the first paragraph most directly expresses the author’s thesis in the passage?

• A. “The stereotype that plagued me the most was the portrait of the Asian-American as the perpetual foreigner.” (sentence 1)

• B. “I washed away this tincture of foreignness with language.” (sentence 3)

• C. “[M]y pleasure in language feels largely independent of any other identity.” (sentence 4)

• D. “[M]y own failure at Japanese gave me direct experience of illiteracy.” (sentence 7)

• E. “I collected English words like amulets.” (sentence 8)

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5. Which of the following statements best describes the function of the passage’s final paragraph?

• A. It restates the author’s thesis in a way that is designed to engage his audience’s attention.

• B. It answers an earlier objection to the author’s argument.

• C. It exhorts the audience to avoid making assumptions about strangers.

• D. It examines the significance of the author’s argument in a broader cultural context.

• E. It emphasizes the author’s desire to develop strategies for assimilation.

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