Select the correct answer from the drop-down menu. Read the excerpt. Which phrase best completes the sentence?
One effect of the flashback in this story is to create:
1) suspense about how many likes Skye's performance will get
2) surprise that the problems only started three weeks ago
3) mystery around why Skye isn't interested in fame
4) curiosity about how the social media post turned out so badly

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

i remeber a bit, but i don't have the exact qoute.

it said that everytime you chopped a head off a new one grew in it's place.

explanation:

harlem's  cotton club boasted the talents of duke ellington. singers such as bessie smith and billie holiday popularized blues and jazz vocals. jelly roll morton and louis armstrong drew huge audiences as white americans as well as african americans caught jazz fever.