Unit 6: Claims and Evidence - Reading Quiz
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In the context of the passage as a whole, the author's description of her teacher's views in the middle of the first paragraph ("I am quite... questioned") is best characterized as a
(B) careful reflection on the biases that influenced her teacher's judgement
In the first sentence of the second paragraph, the author includes the parenthetical statement about the "sensible writer" primarily to
(D) apologize in advance if she is not a reliable reporter of the source's words
The author writes approvingly of the cultured woman's restraint in quoting poetry and Latin authors (paragraph 3, sentence 4) because
(D) it reveals the woman's thoughtful consideration of the effects of her own behavior on others