AP-Style Multiple-Choice Quiz (Malcolm Gladwell, “Offensive Play: How Different Are Dogfighting and Football?”)
AP-Style Multiple Choice Quiz
Malcolm Gladwell, “Offensive Play: How Different Are Dogfighting and Football?”
After reading the selection from “Offensive Play: How Different Are Dogfighting and Football?,” choose the best answer to each question. Click the submit button when finished. The following questions refer to paragraphs 44–50.
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9.1 In context, “belligerent” (para. 44) means
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9.2 What is the purpose of paragraphs 44 and 45 in relation to the selection’s overall argument?
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9.3 When the author says that what happens at Best Friends constitutes “an extravagant gesture” (para. 47), he means that it is
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9.4 Why did the author make paragraph 49 only two sentences long?
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9.5 What is the purpose of paragraph 50?
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9.6 What is the best way to describe the author’s attitude in this essay?
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9.7 Which of the following does the author use in the passage?
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9.8 Which of the following phrases from the passage has the most negative connotation?
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