Exam 8: Comparing and Contrasting

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -For both the cinco and the sixteenth, queens were elected to preside over the ceremonies.

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -In the barrio, the older people remained

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -Why did the people of the barrio not have "official titles"?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What did it mean to turn pocho?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Instead of the Fourth of July, the narrator celebrated ____________________________.

What main point does Deborah Tannen make in her paragraph about the behavior of groups of boys and girls?

Why would it be useful to organize a paragraph comparing and contrasting dogs and cats as pets point-by-point?

Answer the following questions about the essay. -The invention of powerful ___________, scientists were able to see the surface of Mars for the first time.

Why is the word compare often used to refer to both comparing and contrasting?

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -Mars missions will launch about every two years to gain a better understanding of Mars' geologic history and search for evidence of past and present life.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -Given that the author is NASA, the leading organization on space travel, how trustworthy do you find the evidence presented in the essay? How effective is the evidence? Explain.

Unfortunately, women and men often have different ideas about what's appropriate, different ways of speaking. Many of the conversational rituals common among women are designed to take the other person's feelings into account, while many of the conversational rituals common among men are designed to maintain the one-up position, or at least avoid appearing one-down. As a result, when men and women interact-especially at work-it's often women who are at the disadvantage. Because women are not trying to avoid the one-down position, that is unfortunately where they may end up. -Deborah Tannen -What topics is Tannen comparing and contrasting? List the points for each topic.

Answer the following questions about the essay. -What is the author comparing?

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What did the Sacramento barrio lack?

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -Between celebrations, neither the politicians uptown nor the Comisión Honorífica attended to the daily needs of the barrio.

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -Why do people have an interest in planetary science , and what kind of technology do we gain from space travel?

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions after each paragraph. Some people say the business about the jolly fat person is a myth, that all of us chubbies are neurotic, sick, sad people. I disagree. Fat people may not be chortling all day long, but they're a hell of a lot nicer than the wizened and shriveled. Thin people turn surly, mean, and hard at a young age because they never learn the value of a hot-fudge sundae for easing tension. Thin people don't like gooey soft things because they themselves are neither gooey nor soft. They are crunchy and dull, like carrots. They go straight to the heart of the matter while fat people let things stay all blurry and hazy and vague, the way things actually are. Thin people want to face the truth. Fat people know there is no truth. One of my thin friends is always staring at complex, unsolvable problems and saying, "The key thing is… ." Fat people never say that. They know there isn't any such thing as the key thing about anything. -Suzanne Britt Jordan -What is the paragraph's main idea?

A comparing and contrasting paragraph should be organized

Choose the correct answer for each of the following questions about the essay. -What would currently happen to liquid water on Mars's surface?

Choose the correct definition for each of the following underlined words from the essay. -The grocers did not give children a pilón, they did not stand at the door and coax you to come in and buy, as they did in Mazatlán.