Read the selection in your Student Edition and choose the best answer to each question. A Desperate Trek Across America
by Andrés Reséndez
Refer to the selection in your Student Edition to answer the questions in this test. It will assess your understanding of the selection.
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The author uses a rhetorical question in paragraph 13 to -
b
insert his own opinion about the group
emphasize the confusion of the slavers
explain the appearance of the Indians
describe the thoughts of Cabeza de Vaca

Read the excerpt from david foster wallace’s infinite jest. my silent response to the expectant silence begins to affect the air of the room, the bits of dust and sportcoat-lint stirred around by the ac’s vents dancing jaggedly in the slanted plane of windowlight, the air over the table like the sparkling space just above a fresh-poured seltzer. the coach, in a slight accent neither british nor australian, is telling c.t. that the whole application-interface process, while usually just a pleasant formality, is probably best accentuated by letting the applicant speak up for himself. in this excerpt, the narrator is providing a, both objective descriptions and subjective commentaries. b. only objective information about people, setting, and events. c. only subjective responses to the things he sees and experiences. d. a compromised interpretation of events due to his unstable condition.