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Charles Bowden, Our Wall

Charles Bowden, Our Wall

Read Our Wall and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. Which wall is the primary subject of Bowden’s essay?

the Maginot Line

the Great Wall of China

the rabbit fences of Australia

the U.S.–Mexico border wall

2. From which two sources does Bowden claim walls flow?

fear and the desire for control

love and security

hatred and deep-seated racism

aesthetics and practicality

3. Which border town provides the focus for most of Bowden’s discussion of walls?

Berlin

San Diego

Naco

Sydney

4. What point does Bowden make with his exploration of other historic walls?

Walls improve the societies in which they are built.

Walls ultimately prove effective to either keep individuals inside or outside of borders.

Walls inevitably fail.

Walls instill security in communities for millennia.

5. Bowden suggests that the wall in question is

a police solution to a religious problem.

an economic solution to a societal problem.

a societal solution to a police problem.

a police solution to an economic problem.