2. When you read a modern prose narrative--say an ordinary novel--how do you generally expect the author to deal with the series of events that make up the plot? In what ways does the technique
of Beowulf differ from conventional handling of time, place, and
character?

if this isnt a true or false than they have equal amount of importants

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

same test same problem

i think it may be b, i'm not exactly too sure on this. but b seems to make more sense.