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Read the passage from “The Ransom of Red Chief".

An inference is a conclusion based on evidence. One inference that can be drawn from this passage is that Johnny is a nuisance to many people.

Select the sentence that provides textual support for this inference.

Question 12 options:

A

B

C

D

Question 13 (4 points)
28. Which sentences provide evidence that the narrator may be unreliable?

Select each correct answer.

Question 13 options:

From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions.

My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events.

Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence.

Hereafter, perhaps, some intellect may be found which will reduce my phantasm to the common-place—some intellect more calm, more logical, and far less excitable than my own, which will perceive, in the circumstances I detail with awe, nothing more than an ordinary succession of very natural causes and effects.

Question 14 (14 points)
29. Read the excerpt from “The Black Cat.”

For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not—and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul. My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events. In their consequences, these events have terrified—have tortured—have destroyed me.

Which details support the idea that the first-person point of view creates a sense of suspense about what is to come in the story?

*This is a required written response answer. If you do not answer this, you will not pass the diagnostic with a 77% or higher - you will not test out*

Question 14 options:
Question 15 (4 points)
30. How does the first-person point of view affect the overall story?

Select each correct answer.

Question 15 options:

It provides readers with an understanding of what is really happening in the events of the story.

It gives readers insight into the tortuous thoughts and feelings of the man condemned to die.

It allows the narrator to give information about the feelings of the man as well as his wife’s feelings.

It prevents the reader from knowing what the wife’s analysis of her husband’s behavior is.

Question 16 (2 points)
31.

Excerpt from Susan B. Anthony by Alma Lutz

When Susan was two years old, her father built a cotton factory of twenty-six looms beside the brook which ran through Grandfather Read's meadow, hauling the cotton forty miles by wagon from Troy, New York. The millworkers, most of them young girls from Vermont, boarded, as was the custom, in the home of the millowner; Susan's mother, Lucy Read Anthony, although she had three small daughters to care for, Guelma, Susan, and Hannah, boarded eleven of the millworkers with only the help of a thirteen-year-old girl who worked for her after school hours. Lucy Anthony cooked their meals on the hearth of the big kitchen fireplace, and in the large brick oven beside it baked crisp brown loaves of bread. In addition, washing, ironing, mending, and spinning filled her days. But she was capable and strong and was doing only what all women in this new country were expected to do. She taught her young daughters to help her, and Susan, even before she was six, was very useful; by the time she was ten she could cook a good meal and pack a dinner pail.

What is the author’s purpose in this passage?

Question 16 options:

To entertain readers with an amusing story about the past

To inform readers about the early life of Susan B. Anthony

To explain to readers why cotton was popular.