Sneaky Wrong Answers “Stolen Words”                Name:____________________

 

 

Directions:  After each passage, there are a series of statements which use “stolen” words. Decide whether each statement is an example of a “stolen words wrong answer”. If it is a wrong answer, explain why it is wrong in a sentence.

 

With revolutionary improvements in health care technologies,

modern medicine's expansive arsenal has undoubtedly created an improved state of national health. Although the incidence of degenerative disease is on the rise, that is primarily because degenerative diseases are characteristic of old age and the population is living, on average, longer than did its parents and grandparents.

                                          False         True!

Example:                                              (stolen wrong answer!)

a.  Revolutionary health care techniques have produced            _____            ____

degeneration in the state of national heath.

 

 

Modern medicine has increased the individual's average life span.        ____            _____

 

 

Few people doubt that degenerative disease tends to increase        ____            _____

longevity.

 

 

Today's health care technologies have bettered the national            ____            _____

health.

 

 

With today's tools and techniques the physician can cure             ____            _____

degenerative diseases that once caused early death.

 

 

 

As an explanation for the age and origin of the solar system, the nebular hypothesis lost ground at the turn of the twentieth century over questions about the distribution of angular momentum.

                                        False            True!

According to the nebular hypothesis, the solar system was             

    created by distributions of angular momentum.            ____            ____

 

 

The nebular hypothesis came under question at the beginning         ____            ____

    of the twentieth century.

 

 

The nebular hypothesis was challenged because of issues related         ____            ____        

    to angular momentum.

 

 

Knowledge about the solar system's angular momentum was first        ____            ____

    distributed in the twentieth century.

 

 

The nebular hypothesis was poorly understood until the twentieth

    century, when theories of angular momentum gained ground.    ____            ____

    Before the Civil War, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was the best known of black abolitionist writers. Her greatest true novel, Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted, appeared in 1892. The work was transitional: It treats both the pre-Civil War and post-Civil War periods. Although it describes the evils of slavery, its principal purpose was considerably different from some of the earlier novels for which Mrs. Harper became famous. In Iola Leroy, Mrs. Harper wished to promote justice and interracial tolerance. For that reason, the novel treats some issues with more idealism than realism.

    Referring to her own novel, Mrs. Harper wrote: “I have woven a story whose mission will not be in vain if it awakens in the hearts of our countrymen a stronger sense of justice and a more Christlike humanity.”                        

                                            False        True!

Iola Leroy depicts situations occurring before and after the Civil War.        _____        _____

 

 

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was not well known as an abolitionist         ____        _____    

until the appearance of her first true novel, Iola Leroy.

 

 

Although best known as abolitionist literature, Mrs. Harper's prewar         _____        _____

novels usually concerned justice, not slavery.

 

 

Mrs. Harper was well known before the Civil War but in the postwar         _____        _____

period her fame diminished considerably.

 

 

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper opposed slavery before the war and

attempted to improve relations among blacks and whites after the war.        _____        _____

 

 

 

Mrs. Mandale was not among the heavier women in her weight-watching group. She never announced her weight, however, because “a true lady did not discuss such personal matters.” The group was one of Mrs. Mandale's few pleasures, but she feared walking unaccompanied in the city at night and asked that her grandson Allen take her each week to “group”.

 

Mrs. Mandale is willing to reveal her weight only because she             _____        ____

weighs less than others in her weight-watching group.

 

 

Mrs Mandale finds her weight reduction group more enjoyable             _____        _____

than most of her other activities.

 

 

Mrs. Mandale thinks that other women in her weight-watching            _____        _____

 group are not as ladylike as she is.

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