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Why does the author use compare and contrast in “Here Is New York”?

a. to draw attention to the different types of New Yorkers and how they define the city
b. to emphasize that New York is meant only for a specific type of person
c. to illustrate how New York is changing and to express how it should continue to change in the future
d. to create a platform where the writer can argue the pros and cons of commuting to the city

Question 2:
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Which quotations from “Here Is New York” develop the author’s viewpoint that commuters do not truly experience New York City?

Select each correct answer.
A. Except in rare cases, the man who lives in Mamaroneck or Little Neck or Teaneck, and works in New York, discovers nothing much about the city except the time of arrival and departure of trains and buses, and the path to a quick lunch."
B. …he has never come suddenly on anything at all in New York as a loiterer, because he has had no time between trains."
C. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable."
D. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness,…"

QUESTION 3:

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Which quotation most accurately explains Anna Quindlen’s purpose for writing “A Quilt of a Country”?

a. Other countries with such divisions have in fact divided into new nations with new names, but not this one, impossibly interwoven even in its hostilities.“
b. Once these disparate parts were held together by a common enemy, by the fault lines of world wars and the electrified fence of communism.”
c. And there is a grudging fairness among the citizens of the United States that eventually leads most to admit that,…the new immigrants are not so different from our own parents or grandparents.”
d. One of the things that it stands for is this vexing notion that a great nation can consist entirely of refugees from other nations, that people of different, even warring religions and cultures can live, if not side by side, then on either side of the country’s Chester Avenues.”

Question 4:

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How does Anna Quindlen use paradox to advance her purpose in “A Quilt of a Country”?

a. By creating contrast and bringing opposing ideas together, the writer proves that American ideals are changing.
b. By calling attention to the contrasting ideas that America was founded upon, the writer reinforces her main idea.
c. The use of paradox makes the writing more interesting and memorable for most readers.
d. Paradox enables the writer to respond to opposing viewpoints more effectively.

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