Here are the answers to the questions provided:
1. **What is a story’s central or unifying message?**
- **theme**
2. **How can readers best determine the theme of a story? Select the two correct answers.**
- **by reading the story**
- **by analyzing story details**
3. **What is the theme of a story?**
- **the central or unifying lesson**
4. **How can genre affect the theme of a text?**
- **Genre affects which themes can be presented in the story.**
5. **How would a story from the science fiction genre most likely explore a theme about teamwork?**
- **by forcing characters to trust each other and work together to solve a serious problem facing humanity**
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