Logic and Point of View

Read the passage from "Red Scarf Girl" and then answer the questions.

The large red characters were like blood on the poster. “Let’s Look at the Relationship Between Ke Cheng-li and His Favorite Student, Jiang Ji-li.”
I suddenly felt dizzy. Relationship? Me? A relationship with a male teacher? The whole world faded before my eyes. The only things I could see were the name Jiang Ji-li and the word relationship. A shaft of evening sunlight flashed on my name. The characters danced before my eyes, growing larger and redder, almost swallowing me up. An Yi was shaking me. Her eyes were full of tears and she was staring at me anxiously. I could not speak. I grabbed her arm and we ran out of the school yard. We stopped at the back door of a small cigarette shop nearby. An Yi tried to say something, but I wouldn’t let her. We leaned against the wall for a long time without saying a word.
“Let’s go home.” An Yi touched me softly on the elbow. It was getting dark. “You go ahead. I’m going to read the—”
the words dai-zi-bao stuck in my throat.
An Yi nodded worriedly and left. A half-moon brightened the sky, and the school yard was laced with the ghostly shadows of the parasol trees. I picked my way through the shadows and found the da-zi-bao again.
Now, under the cover of darkness, I could let myself cry. I wiped the tears away with my hand, but the more I wiped, the more they came. I pressed my handkerchief to my face.
Finally my eyes cleared enough to see. “Ke Cheng-li doesn’t like working-class kids. He only likes rich kids. He made Jiang Ji-li the teacher’s assistant for math class and gave her higher grades, and he also let her win all the math contests and awarded her a lot of notebooks. We have to ask the question, What is the relationship between them after all?” The blood rushed into my head. I felt like throwing up. I leaned against the wall and rested my head on it.


This passage is written

The line that reads, “The large red characters were like blood on the poster” is an example of which literary device?

In the first three sentences of the dai zi boa in the last paragraph, we find an example of

Read the passage from "We Beat the Streets" and then answer the questions.

“Yo, Sampson, what did you get on your report card?” a boy named Tito asked him one day after school . Grades had been given out for the end of sixth grade, and Sampson had made the honor roll once more. In spite of the fact he played around in school and sometimes gave the teacher a hard time, Sampson rarely got any grade lower than a B.

“Aw, man, you know how it is,” Sampson responded vaguely. “That teacher be cheatin’ us, man. Did she flunk you in math and science, like she did me?”

“Yeah, she be trippin’.”

Sampson hoped Tito would never see his
report card, on which he had received an A in both science and math. When other kids in his class happened to see a good grade on a test paper that was handed back to Sampson, he would tell them he had cheated on the test instead of admitting he had studied.

When Sampson got home, however, he told his mother proudly, “I got the honor roll again, Moms. Me and my boys are gonna rule Dayton Street Elementary next year.”

“I don’t want you running with those hoodlums,” she replied.

“They’re not hoodlums— they’re my boys,” he tried to explain. “I been waiting ever since first grade to get to seventh grade and take over the school!”

Dayton Street Elementary School went up to grade eight. The older students always demanded respect from the younger kids. Sampson could not wait for his turn.

“You’re not going there next year,” his mother announced.



In the second paragraph, Sampson uses a

Why was Sampson’s mother concerned that Sampson would give in to the lies all around him at school?

The reason why Moms doesn’t agree that Sampson should stay at Dayton Street Elementary is because

“I don’t want you running with those hoodlums,” she replied.
“They’re not hoodlums— they’re my boys,” he tried to explain. “I been waiting ever since first grade to get to seventh grade and take over the school!”

In this part of the narrative,

Read the newspaper article below and answer the questions.

“Ethnic Cleansing in Baghdad”

The saddest Christmas story this year was undoubtedly the bombing of a church service Wednesday in Baghdad, which killed 11 and injured many more. It seems terrorists have not given up their perverse goal of driving the Christian community either underground or out of the country.

In a telling reminder of how intimidating the atmosphere has become, The New York Times reported this week that "many Christians living in Baghdad and in other provinces traveled in recent days to the Iraqi Kurdistan region to celebrate Christmas and the new year, fearing just this sort of attack."

Since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, hundreds of thousands of Christians have fled the country, mostly out of fear. And the small group that remains continues to reel from the sort of bigoted body blows that struck those churchgoers in Baghdad.

Peace on Earth? Not yet, alas.

Because of the logical fallacy called “Euphemisms”, maybe the author should change the line:

In the last sentence in the article, the word “reel” in this context means

The author of this article seems to feel that

Answer the questions below about the types of texts used in today's test: