ELA 3.2 Review

This question has two parts. First answer Part A and then answer Part B. 

Part A: What is the author’s claim in the passage Helping People?

• Businesses can help people and make money.

• Businesses can help people but it is too expensive.

• Businesses do not have the time and resources to help people.

  
  

• Businesses help people more than charities.

  
  

This question has two parts. First answer Part A and then answer Part B. 

Remember: Part A: What is the author’s claim in the passage Helping People?

Part B: Select two pieces of evidence from the passage that support your response to Part A.

• Dr. Muhammad Yunus, a teacher in Bangladesh, had a desire to help poor people in his country. (paragraph 1)

  
  

• Grameen Bank is different from other banks. (paragraph 2)

  
  

• This method is more helpful than automatically denying poor people. (paragraph 2)

• Grameen Bank helps people, but it also makes money. (paragraph 4)

  
  

• The bank has made a profit almost every year since it began. (paragraph 5)

  
  

 This question has two parts. First answer Part A and then answer Part B. 

Part A: What is the author’s perspective on businesses helping people in the passage Helping People?

• Businesses are meant to sell products, not give products away

• Grameen Banks are in villages across Bangladesh.

• Poor villagers do not have the right to borrow money.

• Grameen Bank is a great model of how businesses can help people and still make money.

Part B: Select two pieces of evidence from the passage that support your response to Part A.

• Can a business help people and make money? The answer is yes. (paragraph 1)

  
  

• This method is more helpful than automatically denying poor people. (paragraph 2)

  
  

• The bankers go to the people in the villages. (paragraph 3)

• The bank has encouraged women to improve their lives. (paragraph 4)

  
  

• The bank helps poor people escape poverty by working for themselves. (paragraph 5)

  
  

How does the heading “The Beginnings of Grameen Bank” contribute to the meaning of the passage “Helping People?”

• The heading tells the readers we will learn more about how to start your own Grameen Bank. 

  
  

• he heading tells the readers we will learn more about how Yunus started Grameen Bank in villages. 

  
  

• The heading tells the readers we will learn more about how Grameen Bank will start to expand to cities. 

  
  

• The heading tells the readers we will learn more about how Grameen Bank both helps people and makes money.

How does the heading “A Model for Business” contribute to the meaning of the passage?”

• The heading tells the readers we will learn more about how Grameen Bank models for other companies.

• The heading tells the readers we will learn more about how Grameen Bank helps women in villages.

• The heading tells the readers we will learn more about Grameen Bank denies poor people for loans.

• The heading tells the readers we will learn more about how Grameen Bank is able to make a profit as well as help others.