StudySync- Controlling Idea or Thesis

A. The details support an attempt to name the disease by listing more symptoms they have noticed.

B. The details support an attempt to identify a possible cause by pinpointing where the deaths have occurred.

C. The details support an attempt to identify where the sickness started to order to learn how far it has spread.

D. The details support an attempt to identify a cause before knowing where the illness started.

A. The information explains the new discoveries in medicine at the time.

B. The information explains what was known at the time about illness caused by viruses.

C. The information explains medical knowledge the doctors had about humors.

D. The information explains what diseases doctors knew about at the time.

A. He remembers a description of yellow fever he read in a book long ago.

B. He recalls when he was 16 and listened to Dr. Redman tell him about yellow fever.

C. He remembers a friend who died from yellow fever 31 years ago.

D. He recalls the symptoms of yellow fever he saw in Philadelphia 31 years ago.

A. she is already well known to the public.

B. that her work was more important than his own.

C. that he can’t help her until she has achieved more for the cause.

D. she is only looking for publicity.

A. Douglass worked to get power for himself, but Tubman worked to give power to the cause.

B. Douglass believes Tubman’s devotion to freeing the enslaved did not have as much effect as his own devotion to the cause.

C. Douglass’s work was seen by crowds, but Tubman’s work was known only by the few she helped escape to freedom.

D. Douglass worked to make money, but Tubman worked to help enslaved persons escape to freedom.

A. the first and second sentences

B. the second sentence

C. the second and third sentences

D. the third sentence

A. The landlord and Gage know each other very well.

B. Gage is behaving very strangely for an accident victim.

C. The author is exaggerating how bad the accident really was.

D. Doctors in the 1800s were not as skillful as they are today.

A. Gage is well-liked.

B. Life in the town is dull.

C. What is happening is very unusual.

D. People in Vermont tend to be curious.

A. Gage needed to receive medical attention sooner.

B. The town would benefit from more experienced doctors.

C. This is likely the first time someone survived such an accident.

D. Dr. Williams thinks Gage is not telling the truth about what happened.

A. The author doesn’t like being valued only because she comes from a foreign place.

B. The author is flattered that others assume she is from a different country.

C. The author feels she has less value to others because she looks different.

D. The author likes people to ask where she is from so that she can tell her story.