No incorrect answers pt3 Read the excerpt from "A Flag with 50 Stars.”

The U. S. flag at the time had six neat rows of eight stars each. What would be the best way to add two more stars while keeping the arrangement neat and orderly?

How do these sentences contribute to the text?

1- They show how Bob Heft is able to find a way to organize the stars so that they fit in six neat rows.

2- They indicate that Bob Heft is the only person to find a way to add two stars to the U. S. flag.

3- They develop the idea that people around the country are resistant to changing the appearance of the flag.

4- They develop the idea that new arrangement of stars posed a problem with no obvious solution.

option 4 is correct

8- Part A

What inference can be made about Bob Heft in “A Flag with 50 Stars”?

1- He works hard and does not give up easily.

2- He is accustomed to success and does not take criticism well.

3- He has important connections to government officials.

4- He is more knowledgeable about American history than most students.

Question 2
Part B

Which evidence from the text best supports the answer in Part A?

1- “Now that Alaska and Hawaii had been admitted as states, Congressman Moeller had succeeded in having Bob's design chosen as the new U. S. flag.”

2- “His teacher replied that if his design was accepted as the new flag, he would be more than happy to change the grade to an A.”

3- “He was pleased with his solution to the problem, but his teacher found it less than perfect and gave him a B minus.”

4- “Bob spent hours in the attic of his house, cutting up a 48-star flag and rearranging the stars until they fit just right.”
(part A) option 1 (part B) option 4

9- Part A

What is a central idea in Ronald Reagan's "First Inaugural Address"?

1- Special interest groups do not have the nation’s best interests in mind.

2- The nation should put its trust in government during difficult times.

3- The American spirit will triumph over the nation’s economic problems.

4- Government has betrayed the American people and owes them better.

Question 2
Part B

Which sentence best supports the answer in Part A?

1- “Idle industries have cast workers into unemployment, causing human misery and personal indignity.”

2- “From time to time, we have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule.”

3- “Our concern must be for a special interest group that knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions.”

4- “So, with all the creative energy at our command, let us begin an era of national renewal.”
(part A) 3 (part B) 4

10- In his "First Inaugural Address," President Ronald Reagan argues that large government is a great problem in the United States.

Which statement is irrelevant to that claim?

1- “If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?”

2- “All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price.”

3- “It is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government.”

4- “Those who do work are denied a fair return for their labor by a tax system which penalizes successful achievement and keeps us from maintaining full productivity.”

option 2

11- Which evidence from the text is most relevant to Reagan's claim that Americans must renew their faith in democratic rule?

1- “It is time for us to realize that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We are not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline.”

2- “Those who do work are denied a fair return for their labor by a tax system which penalizes successful achievement and keeps us from maintaining full productivity.”

3- “We have been tempted to believe . . . that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people.”

4- “Idle industries have cast workers into unemployment, causing human misery and personal indignity.”
option 3