She Unames Them Study Sync

First

Correct: The yaks discussed the unnaming process all summer before deciding to return their name.

expansive

Correct: Vast

eagerness

Correct: alacrity

alacrity

Correct: eager willingness

peevish

Correct: in an ill mood or manner

vast

Correct: of very great extent or quantity; a large amount of something

irritable

Correct: peevish

resolutely

Correct: steadfastly

resolutely

Correct: with a decided purpose

steadfastly

Correct: with loyalty and devotion

Which passage from the text best supports the correct answer to Question 5?

A. "'O.K., fine, dear. When's dinner?'" Correct. Adam doesn't communicate with Eve about returning the gift; he only cares that she is going to make dinner for him, which clearly shows an inequity.

Choose the best sentence to add descriptive detail to paragraph five. As for the fish of the sea, their names dispersed from them in silence throughout the oceans like faint, dark blurs of cuttlefish ink, and drifted off on the currents without a trace.

A. Their names trailed behind them, fins pushing them away while moving toward new waters. Correct. This sentence describes a fish of the sea pushing its old name away.

Which of these inferences is best supported by the following passage (paragraph 7)? I resolutely put anxiety away, went to Adam, and said, 'You and your father lent me this-gave it to me, actually. It's been really useful, but it doesn't exactly seem to fit very well lately. But thanks very much! It's really been very useful.'

B. Eve was graciously trying to return the gift of naming animals, which she didn't find necessary anymore. Correct. Eve was trying to be polite but also clear in her message that the gift of naming animals was no longer needed.

According to the narrator, how mainly would her words be different after "unnaming" the animals?

B. Her words would have to be thought-out and chosen carefully. Correct. She states in the last paragraph, "My words now must be as slow, as new, as single, as tentative..."

What is most closely the central idea of the passage below (paragraph 9)? And I thought that perhaps when he did notice he might be upset and want to talk. I put some things away and fiddled around a little, but he continued to do what he was doing and to take no notice of anything else.

C. Adam didn't view Eve as his equal and didn't pay much attention to her. Correct. Adam's blatant ignorance of Eve speaks to gender inequality.

Which of these inferences is best supported by the passage below (paragraph 3)? These verbally talented individuals insisted that their names were important to them, and flatly refused to part with them. But [soon] they understood that the issue was precisely one of individual choice, and that anybody who wanted to be called Rover, or Froufrou, or Polly, or even Birdie in the personal sense, was perfectly free to do so...

C. Names shouldn't be labels that define; rather one should be able to choose his or her identity. Correct. Unnaming the animals gave the animals an individual choice by taking the barrier of the label of "dog," "cat," and "bird" away.

Third

Correct: Adam doesn't pay attention to Eve returning the gift.

Fourth

Correct: Eve leaves Adam to join the nameless animals.

Which of these sentences from the text most strongly supports the correct answer to Question 7?

D. "Not one of them had the least objection to parting with the lowercase...appellations 'poodle,' 'parrot,' 'dog,' or 'bird...'" Correct. The domestic animals freely parted with these "labels" because names should be a personal choice.

Which of these sentences best summarizes the passage below (paragraph 6)? And the attraction that many of us felt, the desire to smell one another's smells, feel or rub or caress one another's scales or skin or feathers or fur, taste one another's blood or flesh, keep one another warm -that attraction was now all one with the fear, and the hunter could not be told from the hunted, nor the eater from the food.

D. The animals were no longer separated by labels and wanted to interact with each other. Correct. Taking away the animals' names also broke down the barriers between them.

Second

Correct: The insects parted with their names.