PLEASE PLEASE HELP ILL AWARD YOU THERES MORE ON MY PROFILE PLEASE 1. If you are asked to write a essay about environmental pollution, which of the following topics will be the least useful for your argument?
(a) The Clean Air Act
(b) The Endangered Species Act
(c) Three Mile Island nuclear power plant
(d) The 1977 North Sea oil spill
(e) The contaminated soil in Love Canal, Buffalo
2. Which of the following is the most appropriate thesis?
(a) In The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway overestimates the virtues of Gatsby so that he can turn Gatsby into a second father.
(b) In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby's pursuit of Daisy is a flight from shame and self-hate.
(c) In The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway tells the story of a man who lives next door.
(d) In The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway seeks a world freer than his father provided.
(e) In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby creates an idealized image of himself, then comes to believe he is the idealized Gatsby he has conceived.
3. Which of the following is the least appropriate thesis?
(a) In its recent decisions on educational issues, the Supreme Court has taken the country back to the reactionary days of the 1950s.
(b) In its recent decisions on educational issues, the Supreme Court has increased the humanity of the law in our nation.
(c) In its recent decisions on educational issues, the Supreme Court has been split 5-4 on six occasions.
(d) In its recent decisions on educational issues, the Supreme Court has made manifest the complexities and internal conflicts of our culture.
(e) In its recent decisions on educational issues, the Supreme Court has created unsolvable problems that will trouble the nation for several decades.
4. The paragraphs below, excerpted from Joan Didion's essay "On Going Home," have been scrambled. Which paragraph is the most coherent?
(a) We recall an anecdote about a relative last seen in 1948, and they ask if I still like living in New York City. I go to visit my great-aunts. Questions trail off, answers are abandoned, the baby plays with dust motes in a shaft of afternoon sun. A few of them think now that I am my cousin, or their daughter who died young. I have lived in Los Angeles for three years, but I say that I do. The baby is offered a horehound drop, and I am slipped a dollar bill to "buy a treat."
(b) I go to visit my great-aunts. A few of them think now that I am my cousin, or their daughter who died young. I have lived in Los Angeles for three years, but I say that I do. We recall an anecdote about a relative last seen in 1948, and they ask if I still like living in New York City. The baby is offered a horehound drop, and I am slipped a dollar bill to "buy a treat." Questions trail off, answers are abandoned, the baby plays with dust motes in a shaft of afternoon sun.
(c) The baby is offered a horehound drop, and I am slipped a dollar bill to "buy a treat." Questions trail off, answers are abandoned, the baby plays with dust motes in a shaft of afternoon sun. I go to visit my great-aunts. A few of them think now that I am my cousin, or their daughter who died young. We recall an anecdote about a relative last seen in 1948, and they ask if I still like living in New York City. I have lived in Los Angeles for three years, but I say that I do.
(d) I go to visit my great-aunts. A few of them think now that I am my cousin, or their daughter who died young. We recall an anecdote about a relative last seen in 1948, and they ask if I still like living in New York City. I have lived in Los Angeles for three years, but I say that I do. The baby is offered a horehound drop, and I am slipped a dollar bill to "buy a treat." Questions trail off, answers are abandoned, the baby plays with dust motes in a shaft of afternoon sun.
(e) A few of them think now that I am my cousin, or their daughter who died young. I go to visit my great-aunts. We recall an anecdote about a relative last seen in 1948, and they ask if I still like living in New York City. I have lived in Los Angeles for three years, but I say that I do. The baby is offered a horehound drop, and I am slipped a dollar bill to "buy a treat." Questions trail off, answers are abandoned, the baby plays with dust motes in a shaft of afternoon sun.