ENGLISH 12A- UNIT 2 LOOKING INWARD QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Lesson 6 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Feeling Blue
In which sentence is the word inherently used correctly? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅An inherently kind
person, Monica has always taken in stray animals.
In which sentence is the word emulate used correctly? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Sally looked up to her
father and tried to emulate him in every aspect of her life.
Which word is a synonym for the word alienation? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅isolation
What part of the body is involved in cognitive function? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅brain
Read the excerpt from "How Not to Raise a Bully: The Early Roots of Empathy," in which the author uses
rhetorical features to persuade her readers.
How do you teach a child right from wrong without being too tough or slipping into abuse? Who among
us has not raised our voice—O.K., screamed—while disciplining our children?
What options correctly explain why the author uses these rhetorical features?
Select all that apply. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The author uses first-person pronouns like "us" and "our"
to appear friendly and to create an inclusive tone.
The author asks rhetorical questions to invite the audience to carefully think about the presented topic.
In "How Not to Raise a Bully: The Early Roots of Empathy," how does author Maia Szalavitz use a
rhetorical feature to appeal to her audience's emotions? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅She uses figurative
language to vividly depict lives of poverty and loneliness, making her readers feel sympathetic.
Lesson 7 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The Science of Self-Care
Which sentence makes use of hyperbole for effect? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅On some Mondays, Bill felt
it would be months before the weekend came again.
, Read the sentence.
The lineman grabbed the quarterback's helmet, which was a _[blank]_ violation of the rules intended to
protect players. All the referees immediately threw their penalty flags.
Which option best completes the sentence to convey the idea that the lineman's action was extreme? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅flagrant
Read the excerpt from "Primates, Empathy, and Making Connections."
Below my office window at the Yerkes Primate Center, I often hear my chimps laugh during rough-and-
tumble games, and I cannot suppress a chuckle myself. It's such a happy sound. Tickling and wrestling
are the typical laugh triggers for apes, and probably the original ones for humans. The fact that tickling
oneself is notoriously ineffective attests to its social significance. And when young apes put on their play
face, their friends join in with the same expression as rapidly and easily as humans do with laughter.
Which phrases from the excerpt show the author's stylistic choice to use specific words so the reader
can picture the actions of the chimps?
Select all that apply. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅rough-and-tumble games
Tickling and wrestling
Read the excerpt from "Primates, Empathy, and Making Connections," and then read the statement.
It began much more simply, with the synchronization of bodies: running when others run, laughing
when others laugh, crying when others cry, or yawning when others yawn.
The power of the excerpt is revealed by the author's use of _[blank]_.
Which option best completes the statement? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅parallel structure to show how
individuals performed actions together
Read the opening paragraph from "Primates, Empathy, and Making Connections."
What intrigues me most about laughter is how it spreads. It's almost impossible not to laugh when
everybody else is. There have been laughing epidemics, in which no one could stop and some even died
in a prolonged fit. There are laughing churches and laugh therapies based on the healing power of
laughter. The must-have toy of 1996—Tickle Me Elmo—laughed hysterically after being squeezed three
times in a row. All of this because we love to laugh and can't resist joining laughing around us. This is
why comedy shows on television have laugh tracks and why theater audiences are sometimes sprinkled
with "laugh plants": people paid to produce raucous laughing at any joke that comes along.
The infectiousness of laughter even works across species.
Lesson 6 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Feeling Blue
In which sentence is the word inherently used correctly? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅An inherently kind
person, Monica has always taken in stray animals.
In which sentence is the word emulate used correctly? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Sally looked up to her
father and tried to emulate him in every aspect of her life.
Which word is a synonym for the word alienation? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅isolation
What part of the body is involved in cognitive function? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅brain
Read the excerpt from "How Not to Raise a Bully: The Early Roots of Empathy," in which the author uses
rhetorical features to persuade her readers.
How do you teach a child right from wrong without being too tough or slipping into abuse? Who among
us has not raised our voice—O.K., screamed—while disciplining our children?
What options correctly explain why the author uses these rhetorical features?
Select all that apply. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The author uses first-person pronouns like "us" and "our"
to appear friendly and to create an inclusive tone.
The author asks rhetorical questions to invite the audience to carefully think about the presented topic.
In "How Not to Raise a Bully: The Early Roots of Empathy," how does author Maia Szalavitz use a
rhetorical feature to appeal to her audience's emotions? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅She uses figurative
language to vividly depict lives of poverty and loneliness, making her readers feel sympathetic.
Lesson 7 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The Science of Self-Care
Which sentence makes use of hyperbole for effect? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅On some Mondays, Bill felt
it would be months before the weekend came again.
, Read the sentence.
The lineman grabbed the quarterback's helmet, which was a _[blank]_ violation of the rules intended to
protect players. All the referees immediately threw their penalty flags.
Which option best completes the sentence to convey the idea that the lineman's action was extreme? -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅flagrant
Read the excerpt from "Primates, Empathy, and Making Connections."
Below my office window at the Yerkes Primate Center, I often hear my chimps laugh during rough-and-
tumble games, and I cannot suppress a chuckle myself. It's such a happy sound. Tickling and wrestling
are the typical laugh triggers for apes, and probably the original ones for humans. The fact that tickling
oneself is notoriously ineffective attests to its social significance. And when young apes put on their play
face, their friends join in with the same expression as rapidly and easily as humans do with laughter.
Which phrases from the excerpt show the author's stylistic choice to use specific words so the reader
can picture the actions of the chimps?
Select all that apply. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅rough-and-tumble games
Tickling and wrestling
Read the excerpt from "Primates, Empathy, and Making Connections," and then read the statement.
It began much more simply, with the synchronization of bodies: running when others run, laughing
when others laugh, crying when others cry, or yawning when others yawn.
The power of the excerpt is revealed by the author's use of _[blank]_.
Which option best completes the statement? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅parallel structure to show how
individuals performed actions together
Read the opening paragraph from "Primates, Empathy, and Making Connections."
What intrigues me most about laughter is how it spreads. It's almost impossible not to laugh when
everybody else is. There have been laughing epidemics, in which no one could stop and some even died
in a prolonged fit. There are laughing churches and laugh therapies based on the healing power of
laughter. The must-have toy of 1996—Tickle Me Elmo—laughed hysterically after being squeezed three
times in a row. All of this because we love to laugh and can't resist joining laughing around us. This is
why comedy shows on television have laugh tracks and why theater audiences are sometimes sprinkled
with "laugh plants": people paid to produce raucous laughing at any joke that comes along.
The infectiousness of laughter even works across species.
