Question
How mainly does the author illustrate the rise of the “Extrovert Ideal”?
Answer choices for the above question
A. By comparing the rise of the “Extrovert Ideal” to “opening a Pandora’s Box of personal anxieties.”
B. By comparing the rise of the “Extrovert Ideal” to the way we raise our children.
C. By contrasting the rise of the “Extrovert Ideal” with the Culture of Personality.
D. By drawing a parallel between the rise of the “Extrovert Ideal” to the life of Dale Carnegie.
Which sentence from the text best supports the correct answer to Question 5?
Answer choices for the above question
A. “America has shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality—and opened up a Pandora’s Box of personal anxieties from which we would never quite recover.”
B. “Carnegie’s metamorphosis from farmboy to salesman to public-speaking icon is also the story of the rise of the Extrovert Ideal.”
C. “Carnegie’s journey reflected a cultural evolution that reached a tipping point around the turn of the twentieth century, changing forever who we are and whom we admire, how we act at job interviews and what we look for in an employee, how we court our mates and raise our children.”
D. “But when they embraced the Culture of Personality, Americans started to focus on how others perceived them.”
Answer choices for the above question
A. By comparing the rise of the “Extrovert Ideal” to “opening a Pandora’s Box of personal anxieties.”
B. By comparing the rise of the “Extrovert Ideal” to the way we raise our children.
C. By contrasting the rise of the “Extrovert Ideal” with the Culture of Personality.
D. By drawing a parallel between the rise of the “Extrovert Ideal” to the life of Dale Carnegie.
Which sentence from the text best supports the correct answer to Question 5?
Answer choices for the above question
A. “America has shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality—and opened up a Pandora’s Box of personal anxieties from which we would never quite recover.”
B. “Carnegie’s metamorphosis from farmboy to salesman to public-speaking icon is also the story of the rise of the Extrovert Ideal.”
C. “Carnegie’s journey reflected a cultural evolution that reached a tipping point around the turn of the twentieth century, changing forever who we are and whom we admire, how we act at job interviews and what we look for in an employee, how we court our mates and raise our children.”
D. “But when they embraced the Culture of Personality, Americans started to focus on how others perceived them.”
Answers
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The correct answer for the first question regarding how the author illustrates the rise of the “Extrovert Ideal” is:
**C. By contrasting the rise of the “Extrovert Ideal” with the Culture of Personality.**
The sentence from the text that best supports this answer is:
**A. “America has shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality—and opened up a Pandora’s Box of personal anxieties from which we would never quite recover.”**
This sentence reflects the transition from the Culture of Character to the Culture of Personality, which emphasizes the rise of the Extrovert Ideal.
**C. By contrasting the rise of the “Extrovert Ideal” with the Culture of Personality.**
The sentence from the text that best supports this answer is:
**A. “America has shifted from what the influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a Culture of Character to a Culture of Personality—and opened up a Pandora’s Box of personal anxieties from which we would never quite recover.”**
This sentence reflects the transition from the Culture of Character to the Culture of Personality, which emphasizes the rise of the Extrovert Ideal.