IXL H.2,H.3 grade A q&a
In the following passage, author James M. Cain gives his view of Los Angeles during
the 1930s. Select the best evidence to support the statement "The author believes that
diversity will be a huge draw for people to Los Angeles culture."
Where this place is headed is to be the leader in commerce, art, citrus production,
music, rabbit breeding, oil production, furniture manufacture, walnut growing, literature,
olive bottling, short- and long-distance hauling, clay modelling, aesthetic criticism, fish
export, canary-bird culture, playwrighting, shipping, cinematic creativeness, and
drawing-room manners. In short, it is going to be a paradise on earth. And, with such
vaulting ambitions, it might pull off something: you can't tell. It is keenly aware of Asia,
and also of Mexico; streams are meeting here that ought to churn up some exciting
whirlpools. I, personally, even if the first act hasn't been so hot, am not going - (correct
answer)
Select the best evidence to support the statement "Mr. Darcy does not share back the
feelings that Caroline has for him."
Caroline Bingley's attention was quite as much engaged in watching Mr. Darcy's
progress through his book, as in reading her own; and she was perpetually either
making some inquiry, or looking at his page. She could not win him, however, to any
conversation; he merely answered her question, and read on. At length, quite exhausted
by the attempt to be amused with her own book, which she had only chosen because it
was the second volume of his, she gave a great yawn and said, "How pleasant it is to
spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How
much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I
shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library." - (correct answer)
In the following passage, the narrator reflects on his mother's character. Select the best
evidence to support the statement "Photographs of the narrator's mother don't reflect
her personality as he knew it."
She liked to make me laugh by calling herself an Okie even though she was as glossy
and nervy and stylish as a racehorse. That exotic character unfortunately comes out a
little too stark and unforgiving in photographs—her freckles covered with makeup, her
In the following passage, author James M. Cain gives his view of Los Angeles during
the 1930s. Select the best evidence to support the statement "The author believes that
diversity will be a huge draw for people to Los Angeles culture."
Where this place is headed is to be the leader in commerce, art, citrus production,
music, rabbit breeding, oil production, furniture manufacture, walnut growing, literature,
olive bottling, short- and long-distance hauling, clay modelling, aesthetic criticism, fish
export, canary-bird culture, playwrighting, shipping, cinematic creativeness, and
drawing-room manners. In short, it is going to be a paradise on earth. And, with such
vaulting ambitions, it might pull off something: you can't tell. It is keenly aware of Asia,
and also of Mexico; streams are meeting here that ought to churn up some exciting
whirlpools. I, personally, even if the first act hasn't been so hot, am not going - (correct
answer)
Select the best evidence to support the statement "Mr. Darcy does not share back the
feelings that Caroline has for him."
Caroline Bingley's attention was quite as much engaged in watching Mr. Darcy's
progress through his book, as in reading her own; and she was perpetually either
making some inquiry, or looking at his page. She could not win him, however, to any
conversation; he merely answered her question, and read on. At length, quite exhausted
by the attempt to be amused with her own book, which she had only chosen because it
was the second volume of his, she gave a great yawn and said, "How pleasant it is to
spend an evening in this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How
much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I
shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library." - (correct answer)
In the following passage, the narrator reflects on his mother's character. Select the best
evidence to support the statement "Photographs of the narrator's mother don't reflect
her personality as he knew it."
She liked to make me laugh by calling herself an Okie even though she was as glossy
and nervy and stylish as a racehorse. That exotic character unfortunately comes out a
little too stark and unforgiving in photographs—her freckles covered with makeup, her
