The Outsiders
Question 1 of 10
What did the Socs do when they jumped Ponyboy after he left the movie?
A They threatened to cut off his hair, and one pulled a knife on him.
® They swung bicycle chains and warned him to stay out of their drive-in.
C They stuffed him into the trunk of a Corvair and drove him to a vacant lot.
D
They said he needed more grease and poured a can of motor oil over his head.

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.

the civil rights act was passed on april 9, 1866 by a republican dominated congress. it was passed over president johnson's veto, in an effort to push back against discrimination of african americans.