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I’ve wanted to go to France since the beginning of time.

• Understatement
• Hyperbole
• Litotes
• Antithesis

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What does ARBEIT MACHT FREI mean on the gate of Auschwitz?

• Hate for all 
• Work makes you free
• No Jews allowed
• Consequences follow actions 

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How do members of the Party regard the proles?

• Proles are naturally inferior, and must be kept powerless. 
• Proles need to be indoctrinated, and converted over into Party ideology.
• Lazy proles, they should all be sent to fight in the war.

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The term anti-semitism refers to:

• hatred of minorities
• hatred of Jews
• none of the above
• hatred of the disabled

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The people below the elevator are described using a metaphor to demonstrate their: 

• color 
• sound 
• speed 
• size 

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In recent years, public libraries in the United States

have experienced 1 reducing in their operating funds

due to cuts imposed at the federal, state, and local

government levels.

• reductions

• deducting

• deducts

• NO CHANGE

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Senator Fogg launched into his usual harangue, an endless lecture on the frightful conditions everywhere. 

• long, ranting speech
• humorous comment
• obvious lie
• dessert

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Which sentence uses technical terms to provide meaning?

• It's about triggering a response we have to fear that releases chemicals in our brains.

• It's about triggering the amazing fight-or-flight response to experience the flood of adrenaline, endorphins, and dopamine.

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Which propaganda technique is exemplified here?

• Repetition

• Glittering Generalities

• Plain Folks

• Bandwagon

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When a sentence or phrase means something in addition to its literal meaning.

• Verbal Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony

• Fehlbergian Irony

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