1. Part A: Which of the following best describes the central idea of the text? A. Never underestimate teenage girls.
B. Faith and courage led Joan to victory.
C Joan of Arc was one of the most influential women in history.
D. The history of French-English relationships was changed by a peasant girl.
2.
Part B: What piece of evidence from the text would support your answer for Part
A?
A. "She began to hear these voices in 1425, when she was 13" (Para 2). X
B. "She was refused a lawyer and was treated cruelly in prison" (Para 10).
C. (Joan) had tremendous success. With her army, the French won victory after
victory" (Para 11).
D. "Her presence there had a swift and great effect" (Para 7).

1. Part A: the answer is A, 2. Part B: the answer is C

Explanation:

1. Central ideas are general and have to be applicable to anything.

2. Option C best shows why you shouldn't underestimate teenage girls.

Part A:

B. Faith and courage led Joan to victory.

Explanation:

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.