Is Survival Selfish?

Read this sentence from paragraph 2 of the selection. The "women and children first" protocol of the Titanic may not be as strong a social stricture as it was a century ago. Which word is a synonym for protocol as the author uses it in this sentence?

Convention

Which of these sentences requires a comma to distinguish and divide an independent clause from a dependent clause?

Even though we have a survival instinct we sometimes face danger to save others.

What is the outcome of self sacrifice?

Public Acclaim/Praise

Which quotation from the selection is a statement of fact, and not an expression of opinion?

She got out of the plane and survived. Very few others in the plane, which was soon consumed by fire, did. (paragraph 7)

What is the outcome of self preservation?

Survival

According to the author, why do survivors often experience feelings of guilt?

They believe they should have done more to help others during the event.

Why does the author include her personal experience about the Grand Central Station incident in paragraphs 4-5?

To introduce the idea that sometimes people's instincts are not about survival

In paragraph 14, the phrase a thousand cues is —

an overstatement, intended to convey that how people react depends on which signals, out of the many they receive, they respond to

In paragraph 3, the author states that every survival situation is different. If this is true, it follows that —

it is impossible to generalize about survivors