Why are the girls surprised when they read the menu in the window?
The raffle prize this year is a really cool
bike.
The restaurant serves grilled cheese
sandwiches.
The food costs more than they
expected

Which is the best example of manipulating an audience through media? a. playing sinister music while interviewing a celebrity b. criticizing a professional athlete without providing reasons c. starting a web form for a discussion about a new app d. filing a complaint against a company for its bad service

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.

What is the major irony in the poem “ballad of birmingham” by dudley randall? a. the mother is afraid her daughter will get hurt marching in a protest, but her daughter gets hurt going to church instead. b. the mother realizes that going to church may be as dangerous as going to a protest, so she doesn’t let her daughter leave. c. the mother is upset that her daughter deliberately defies her wishes to participate in the freedom march. d. the daughter could have missed church because the alarm clock wasn’t working that morning.