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.

Question 9.1 In context, “belligerent” (para. 44) means

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Question 9.2 What is the purpose of paragraphs 44 and 45 in relation to the selection’s overall argument?

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Question 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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Question 9.4 Why did the author make paragraph 49 only two sentences long?

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Question 9.5 What is the purpose of paragraph 50?

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Question 9.6 What is the best way to describe the author’s attitude in this essay?

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Question 9.7 Which of the following does the author use in the passage?

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Question 9.8 Which of the following phrases from the passage has the most negative connotation?

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