Agatha Pantola Quizizz

1. The statistics in paragraph #1 show that in the past forty years,

• a. The rich have gotten richer but the poor haven’t become poorer.

• b. The gap between the rich and the poor has increased.

• c. The gap between the rich and the poor has decreased.

• d. Tax laws have favored the rich.

2. What does it mean in paragraph #3 when the author says, “The problem is less with the existence of extreme wealth than with how it is created and preserved”?

• a. That wealthy people are skilled at finding new investment opportunities

• b. That financial intelligence is key to life success

• c. More protection should exist for preserving everyon’s savings

• d. That creating and preserving wealth doesn’t typically benefit those who are less well off

3. The author’s overall purpose is to show:

• a. How the poor aren’t really at a disadvantage.

• b. How extreme wealth reinforces the cycle of poverty.

• c. The American Dream is still real.

• d. Social mobility is possible if only the poor pursue education.

4. Which is more important, according to the author?

• a. The power the rich have to decide public policy

• b. The resources the rich have to send their children to good schools

• C. The resources the rich have to send their children to good schools

• D. The resources the rich have to send their children to good schools

5. The reason the poor tend to stay poor, according to the passage, is that:

• a. They don’t try hard enough to succeed

• b. Public policy puts them at a disadvantage.

• c. They don’t know how to access the resources they need to succeed.

• d. They are raised to believe school isn’t important.

6. The author poses the question, “But does it matter that the rich are making more money than they once did?” (Paragraph #2). The author’s answer to this question is:

• Yes

• No

• No

• No

7. Who is the implied audience?

• a. Developmental teachers

• b. Developmental students

• c. High school teachers

• d. Parents of developmental students

8. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

• a. The writer thinks that teachers criticize students too much.

• b. The writer dislikes developmental students.

• c. The writer wants to help developmental teachers understand students.

• d. The writer thinks all students should study psychology.

9. The author of the passage uses the phrase “endless, apparently irrelevant” (paragraph 1, sentence 5) in order to

• a. Show how some instructors give students too much work without any breaks

• b. Show why classes need to be more fun and playful

• c. Show why class meeting times need to be shorter to accommodate students’ limited attention spans

• d. Show why some students don’t take developmental classes seriously because the assignments they’ve been doing for years have seemed pointless

10. 10. Which best describes the relationship between the two paragraphs?

• a. The first paragraph explains how too many students end up in developmental classes because their high schools didn’t prepare them for college, and the second paragraph explains how instructors should be tougher on these underprepared students.

• b. The first paragraph explains various emotional and intellectual causes of developmental students’ under-performance, and the second paragraph shows how instructors should address it.

• c. The first paragraph provides several examples of what instructors think of developmental students, and the second paragraph gives advice for how to improve the teacher-student relationship.

• d. The first paragraph shows the problems with college education, and the second paragraph proposes solutions.