What Makes a Family? E.J. Graff MC Friday Practice

21. The thesis of the entire passage can be found in line(s)

• 1-2

• 9-10

• 22

• 27-29

• 33-36

22. The purpose of the first paragraph is to...

• criticize historians

• define family

• prove the author's scholarly intent

• ease the reader into scholarly topic

• establish the time frame of the passage

23. Footnote 4 is an example of a(n)...

• primary source

• secondary source

• assumption of the reader's background

• author's aside

• link to other sources

24. The opening sentence of the passage is an example of a(n)...

• cautionary tale

• analogy

• paradox

• ad hoc argument

• interrogative

25. The primary rhetorical technique employed by the author to develop this passage is...

• cause and effect

• narration

• description

• process

• definition

26. The tone of the passage can most accurately be described as...

• sarcastic and vituperative

• conversational and scholarly

• formal and pedantic

• erudite and exhortative

• humourous and detached

27. Acording to the passag, today's modern family most resembles that found in...

• Rome in the time of the emperors

• Bologna in the thirteenth century

• Pre-eighteenth-century western Europe

• Great Britain between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries

• Pre-modern northern Europe

28. Lines 32-22 ("historians...universally") can be read as a reinforcement of a concept expresse in lines...

• 2-5

• 9-10

• 22-24

• 27-29

• 41-44

29. Footnote 6 does all of the following, except:

• provide primary sources for further calculations and estimates

• reinforce the concept of the amorphous nature of the term family

• demonstrate the breadth of the author's research

• point to references that the reader can access for further study

• disclaim any lapses or inadequacies in the author's discussion of the subject

30. The author's anticipation of reader's questions is demonstrated by her use of...

• diction

• rhetorical questions

• direct quotations

• parentheticals

• ellipsis