5. Read the excerpt below from page 21. "As far as I'm concerned, this whole business of deportation is nothing but a big farce. Don't
laugh. They just want to steal our valuables and jewelry. They know that it has all been buried
and that they will have to dig to find it; so much easier to do when the owners are on vacation..."
In this excerpt, the word farce most closely means -

F. hoax
G. alarm
H. danger
J. misunderstanding

Read the following excerpt from "harrison bergeron" by kurt vonnegut: he tried to think a little about the ballerinas. they weren't really very good-no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. they were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. george was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn't be handicapped. but he didn't get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts. what message about the role of media is best supported in this excerpt? a. media are the reason george is able to watch ballet. b. media change people's values, making them more selfish. c. media tend to make audiences' worldviews the same. d. media can be used to distract audiences from the truth.