This test is timed - 45 minutes. You must submit before time runs out. Question 1
100 pts
The passage below is from Last Child in the Woods (2008) by Richard Louv. Read the passage
carefully. Then, in a well-developed essay, analyze the rhetorical strategies Louv uses to develop
his argument about the separation between people and nature. Support your analysis with
specific references to the text.
Researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo are experimenting with a
genetic technology through which they can choose the colors that appear on

Read this passage from william faulkner's the sound and the fury: i says no i never had university advantages because at harvard they teach you how to go for a swim at night without knowing how to swim and at sewanee they dont even teach you what water is. i says you might send me to the state university; maybe i'll learn how to stop my clock with a nose spray and then you can send ben to the navy i says or to the cavalry anyway, they use geldings in the cavalry. which best describes the narrator's tone in this passage? a. bitter b. angry c. sarcastic d. all of the above

Who gets bob ewell to stop his bothering?

Before odysseus talks about the lotus-eaters and the cyclops, what other events does he refer to? a. the advances of suitors that his wife penelope must fend off b. the attack by poseidon on his ship c. the attack and raid on the land of the cicones d. the nights he spent inside the trojan horse