Question
1
A)
When critiquing a nonfiction text, which questions about the text’s details should a reader ask?Select the two correct answers.
(1 point)
Are the details written in a way that anyone can understand them?
Are the details necessary for the audience to understand the text?
Are the details sufficient to support the thesis?
Are the details connected to each other?
Are the details entertaining to read about?
Question 2
The article gives many good details but
lacks a clear thesis statement. The
examples seem to support a general
positive feeling toward undocumented
immigrants, but the text would be helped
by the addition of a clear thesis
statement.
The article clearly states that butterflies
are disappearing in Ohio. It gives
evidence in the form of data from two
different studies. It explains that the
butterflies are an indicator of a larger
trend among all insects. Overall, the
article presents a clear thesis supported
by compelling evidence.
The article has no clear thesis. It begins
with a discussion of rainbows but then
switches to the topic of phytoplankton. Its
examples are written in complicated
jargon that is difficult for readers to
understand. The details are not clearly
linked to any central statement. The
article is not effective at providing
information to the reader.
A) Match each evaluation to the type of critique it represents. (1 point)
Positive critique Negative critique Balanced critique
Question
3
As might be surmised from its title, Penelope Oh's
21st Century Kimchi
aims to bring this treasuredtraditional food onto the world stage and into themodern era—and, by and large, it succeeds. Partcookbook, part memoir, part manifesto,
21st CenturyKimchi
provides a few of the old-fashioned recipesthat are more-or-less obligatory in a book about thisfunky foodstuff. For the most part, however, Oh'sfocus is squarely on the new and unexpected. Usinga mixture of Korean and global ingredients, Ohproposes ways to "kimchi-fy" such far-flung produceas beetroot, pumpkin, and even pineapple. Add tothis the host of quirky recipes made
with
kimchi(including a "Desserts" section), and Penelope Oh'sbook offers nothing less than a reinvention of thischerished vegetable dish.
A)
Use the passage to answer the question.
Which phrases from the passage show thereviewer’s opinion of the book? Select the twocorrect answers.
(1 point)
“reinvention of this cherished vegetable
dish”
“this treasured traditional food”
“might be surmised from its title”
“funky foodstuff”
“quirky recipes”
Question
4
"The Osage IndiansStruck It Rich, Paidthe Price"
by Dwight Garner
If you taught the artificial brains of supercomputersat IBM Research to write nonfiction prose, and ifthey got very good at it, they might compose a booklike David Grann’s “Killers of the Flower Moon: TheOsage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.”
This is not entirely a complaint. Grann’s new book,about how dozens of members of the Osage Indiannation in Oklahoma in the 1920s were shot,poisoned or blown to bits by rapacious whites whocoveted the oil under their land, is close toimpeccable. It’s confident, fluid in its dynamics, lighton its feet.
What it lacks is the soulful, trippy, questing andoffhandedly cerebral quality of his last and best-known book, “The Lost City of Z: A Tale of DeadlyObsession in the Amazon” (2009). That volume isdeservedly regarded as one of the prize nonfictionspecimens of this century.
"The Osage Indians Struck It Rich, Then Paid thePrice" by Dwight Garner, from THE NEW YORKTIMES, April 12, 2017. Copyright © 2017 by TheNew York Times Company. All rights reserved. Usedunder license.
A)
Use the passage to answer the question
.
Which sentence from the passage
best
summarizes the reviewer’s opinion of thebook’s style?
(1 point)
“It’s confident, fluid in its dynamics, light
on its feet.”
“That volume is deservedly regarded as
one of the prize nonfiction specimens of
this century.”
“If you taught the artificial brains of
supercomputers at IBM Research to write
nonfiction prose, and if they got very good
at it, they might compose a book like
David Grann’s ‘Killers of the Flower
Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth
of the FBI.’”
“This is not entirely a complaint.”
Question
5
"The Osage IndiansStruck It Rich, Paidthe Price"
by Dwight Garner
If you taught the artificial brains of supercomputersat IBM Research to write nonfiction prose, and ifthey got very good at it, they might compose a booklike David Grann’s “Killers of the Flower Moon: TheOsage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.”
This is not entirely a complaint. Grann’s new book,about how dozens of members of the Osage Indiannation in Oklahoma in the 1920s were shot,poisoned or blown to bits by rapacious whites whocoveted the oil under their land, is close toimpeccable. It’s confident, fluid in its dynamics, lighton its feet.
What it lacks is the soulful, trippy, questing andoffhandedly cerebral quality of his last and best-known book, “The Lost City of Z: A Tale of DeadlyObsession in the Amazon” (2009). That volume isdeservedly regarded as one of the prize nonfictionspecimens of this century.
That was a book with a personality. It seemed to bewritten by someone who was, as Charles Lamb saidof Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an archangel a littledamaged. There was some strange junk in itscupboards.
“Killers of the Flower Moon” has cleaner lines, and itdidn’t set its hooks in me in the same way. But thecrime story it tells is appalling and stocked withauthentic heroes and villains. It will make you cringeat man’s inhumanity to man.
About America’s native people, Saul Bellow wrote ina 1957 essay, “They have left their bones, their flintsand pots, their place names and tribal names andlittle besides except a stain, seldom vivid, on theconsciousness of their white successors.”
A)
Use the passage to answer the question
.
Which quotation from the passage containsthe reviewer’s main argument about
Killers ofthe Flower Moon
?
(1 point)
“But the crime story it tells is appalling
and stocked with authentic heroes and
villains. It will make you cringe at man’s
inhumanity to man.”
“It seemed to be written by someone who
was, as Charles Lamb said of Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, an archangel a little
damaged.”
“About America’s native people, Saul
Bellow wrote in a 1957 essay, ‘They have
left their bones, their flints and pots, their
place names and tribal names and little
besides except a stain, seldom vivid, on
the consciousness of their white
successors.’”
“That volume is deservedly regarded as
one of the prize nonfiction specimens of
this century.”
"The Osage Indians Struck It Rich, Then Paid thePrice" by Dwight Garner, from THE NEW YORKTIMES, April 12, 2017. Copyright © 2017 by TheNew York Times Company. All rights reserved. Usedunder license.
1 answer
Question 1
A) When critiquing a nonfiction text, which questions about the text’s details should a reader ask?
Select the two correct answers.
- Are the details necessary for the audience to understand the text?
- Are the details sufficient to support the thesis?
Question 2
A) Match each evaluation to the type of critique it represents.
- Positive critique: The article clearly states that butterflies are disappearing in Ohio. It gives evidence in the form of data from two different studies. It explains that the butterflies are an indicator of a larger trend among all insects. Overall, the article presents a clear thesis supported by compelling evidence.
- Negative critique: The article has no clear thesis. It begins with a discussion of rainbows but then switches to the topic of phytoplankton. Its examples are written in complicated jargon that is difficult for readers to understand. The details are not clearly linked to any central statement. The article is not effective at providing information to the reader.
- Balanced critique: The article gives many good details but lacks a clear thesis statement. The examples seem to support a general positive feeling toward undocumented immigrants, but the text would be helped by the addition of a clear thesis statement.
Question 3
A) Use the passage to answer the question.
Which phrases from the passage show the reviewer’s opinion of the book? Select the two correct answers.
- “reinvention of this cherished vegetable dish”
- “funky foodstuff”
Question 4
A) Use the passage to answer the question.
Which sentence from the passage best summarizes the reviewer’s opinion of the book’s style?
- “It’s confident, fluid in its dynamics, light on its feet.”
Question 5
A) Use the passage to answer the question.
Which quotation from the passage contains the reviewer’s main argument about Killers of the Flower Moon?
- “But the crime story it tells is appalling and stocked with authentic heroes and villains. It will make you cringe at man’s inhumanity to man.”
