Finding Evidence Practice 2

What claim about the Great Migration does the passage support?

• It was primarily caused by the abolition of slavery.

• It resulted in immediate equality for African Americans.

• It significantly influenced American culture and politics.

• It ended with the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

Which evidence from the passage best supports the claim that economic factors contributed to the Great Migration?

• "In the South, many Black Americans faced limited employment opportunities, primarily restricted to sharecropping and domestic work, while Northern industries offered higher-paying manufacturing jobs, particularly as labor shortages emerged during World War I."

• The oppressive Jim Crow laws in the South enforced rigid segregation and denied African Americans basic civil rights."

• "Black-owned newspapers such as the Chicago Defender actively encouraged migration, publishing job listings and first-hand accounts of life in the North."

• "Historians now recognize the Great Migration as not just a demographic shift but a courageous act of self-determination by millions seeking greater opportunity and dignity."

Which detail provides the strongest evidence that communication networks played a role in facilitating the Great Migration?

• "Between 1916 and 1970, approximately six million African Americans relocated from the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West."

• "Racial violence, including lynchings, created an atmosphere of terror and insecurity."

• "Black-owned newspapers such as the Chicago Defender actively encouraged migration, publishing job listings and first-hand accounts of life in the North, while established communities provided crucial support networks for new arrivals."

• "As African Americans settled in urban centers, they brought Southern cultural traditions that transformed American music, literature, and art."

Based on the poem, which statement best explains why leaves change color in autumn?

• The leaves catch fire from the heat of the sun.

• The wind causes the leaves to change their appearance.

• The chlorophyll diminishes, revealing other pigments.

• The tree intentionally changes colors to prepare for winter.

Which line provides the strongest evidence that the poem depicts the seasonal cycle as continuous rather than final?

• "The crimson deepens day by day,"

• "Wind whispers through the branches bare,"

• "Beneath the tree, a carpet grows,"

• "The cycle ends, yet seeds remain, / To start the journey once again."

Which evidence from the poem best supports the idea that the leaf color change is a gradual process?

• "Begins its quiet, steady change— / A painter's palette, wide in range."

• "First yellow creeps along the edge, / Then orange flames across the ledge"

• They spiral down in slow descent, / Their vibrant energy now spent."

• 1. "Beneath the tree, a carpet grows, / A quilt of flame before the snows."

What is the main issue the poem addresses?

• The health risks associated with technology use.

• The inequality in access to digital technology

• The preference for books over digital resources

• The high cost of internet service providers

Which evidence from the poem best supports the claim that lack of internet access affects education?

• "Rural valleys, urban streets / Face different technical defeats"

• "The farmer's daughter cannot reach / The resources her teachers preach / About; the city child must seek / A library for one-hour peek"

• "Two worlds exist on either side / Of what we call the Digital Divide"

• "Yet bridges span this chasm wide / When communities decide"

Which lines provide the strongest evidence that the poet believes digital equality is important for society?

• "The gap grows wider every day, / As technology makes its way"

• "For knowledge shared means better health / For democracy—whose ideal stands / On equal access in all hands."

• "In classrooms bright with knowledge vast, / Some students leap into the fast / Highways of information free"

• "While disconnected barely survive."