Exam 6: Illustrating

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -When our revered founders decided to lift a gun against the British crown, a main pillar holding up the will to armed resistance was self-determination.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -One day was unusually harrowing .

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -The author cites black theorist W.E.B. DuBois. What realization did DuBois have about his race?

Illustrating is simply giving __________________ to make a point.

The paragraph's examples should be organized ________ (Choose one: chronologically, spatially, or by extremes).

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What idea does Lebron argue is at the core of America's founding?

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions after each paragraph. She was the first wife of any president to hold press conferences, to speak before a national Party Convention, to write a syndicated column (it appeared in 135 papers six times a week), to be a radio commentator. She was able to use the office of the First Lady on behalf of the causes she believed in, rather than let it use her, and in so doing she became, in the words of the columnist Raymond Clapper, the "most influential woman of our times." Doris Kearns Goodwin (about Eleanor Roosevelt) -Does Goodwin include enough examples to make her point? Explain your answer.

A century ago, the average U.S. citizen lived to be 48. Now we live to an average age of 76-thanks in large part to medical research. Pharmaceutical companies do an excellent job in research, and they increased their research spending from $2 billion in 1980 to $20 billion in 1998. But we can't rely on them for basic research efforts. That's why funding for the National Institutes of Health, which does basic research that can benefit us all, is so important. Its funding has doubled in the last 15 years-to $15 billion. But while $15 billion is a sizable sum, it is inadequate when compared to what we spend on legalized gambling ($638 billion), alcohol ($95 billion), and cigarettes ($50 billion). Two-thirds of Americans agree that funding for medical research should be doubled, according to a poll taken recently by the nonprofit advocacy group Research! America. -Paul Simon -How are the examples in the paragraph arranged?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -How does Lebron organize his illustrations? Is this organization effective? How else could he have ordered his examples?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -At the butcher's shop, the narrator's mother doesn't at first realize that she needs a __________ in order to be served.

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What detail does the author use to illustrate that Terence Crutcher was pursuing a plan for his life?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -The narrator describes her mother as being "fiery, stern, deeply funny, and ironic" in her native language but "slightly less so" in the English language. Why do you think this is so? What relationship does language have to identify?

Theresa Sanchez sat behind me in ninth-grade algebra. When Mr. Hubbley faced the blackboard, I'd turn around to see what she was reading; each week a new book was wedged inside her copy of Today's Equations. The deception worked; from Mr. Hubbley's point of view, Theresa was engrossed in the value of X, but I knew otherwise. One week, she perused The Wisdom of the Orient, and I could tell from Theresa's contemplative expression that the book contained exotic thoughts, guidelines handed down from high. Another week it was a paperback novel whose title, Let Me Live My Life, appeared in bold print atop every page, and whose cover, a gauzy photograph of a woman biting a strand of pearls, head thrown back in an attitude of ecstasy, confirmed my suspicion that Theresa Sanchez was mature beyond her years. She was the tallest girl in school. Her bouffant hairdo, streaked with blond, was higher than the flaccid bouffants of other girls. Her smooth skin, plucked eyebrows, and painted fingernails suggested hours of pampering, a worldly and sensual vanity that placed her within the domain of adults. Smiling dimly, steeped in daydreams, Theresa moved through the crowded halls with a languid, self-satisfied indifference to those around her. "You are merely children," her posture seemed to say, "I can't be bothered." -Bernard Cooper -What main idea do you think Cooper is trying to communicate in this paragraph?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Lebron focuses his essay on fatal shootings by police, but does not discuss any other types of discrimination. Why do you think he chose to focus his essay in this way? Is it effective? Why or why not?

The sufficient number of examples depends on your __________ ________.

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -The narrator describes an "unusually harrowing" event. Where does the event take place?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -After the death of her mother, the narrator asks if the same people who object to foreign signs would be __________ to her mother.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Terrence Crutcher is just one example of Americans who were killed by employees of the state in the past few years, all of whom shared one condition- ________________.

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -The narrator is upset about a new law that requires

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -We ventured downtown in the new Ford Country Squire my father had bought her, an enormous station wagon that seemed as long-and deft -as an ocean liner.