Read the selection in your Student Edition and choose the best answer to each question. My Life as a Bat
by Margaret Atwood

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Select two reasons the author uses historical references in paragraph 3.
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To demonstrate irony in the claims of those who say they were reincarnated

To impress the reader with the narrator’s experiences in a previous life

To support the idea that the narrator becomes a bat as punishment for her sins

To explain the narrator’s logic for claiming that reincarnation is real

To cast doubt on the narrator’s claim that she was reincarnated as a bat

Read the paragraph. theodore roosevelt was the greatest president because as a leader of the progressive party, he brought about much-needed social, political, and economic reform. one of his economic reforms was to break up many large business trusts. by doing so, he took economic power out of the hands of the wealthy and powerful corporations and placed it in the hands of the ordinary people. theodore roosevelt’s reform policies, known as the square deal, to give the average citizen an equal share of opportunities. which sentence is the thesis of this paragraph? theodore roosevelt was the greatest president because as a leader of the progressive party, he brought about much-needed social, political, and economic reforms. one of his economic reforms was to break up many large business trusts. by doing so, he took economic power out of the hands of the people and placed it in the hands of the ordinary people. theodore roosevelt’s reform policies, known as the square deal, to give the average citizen an equal share of opportunities.