Question

Question 1

"Students Give
Hope in Face of
Anti-LGBTQ Rights
Laws"
by Douglas Ray
These are my last few days in the South. After 24
years in Mississippi and six in Alabama, I’m moving
to Ohio to teach at a boarding school. As my time in
my current school community dwindles, I am doing
as much as possible to spend time with my
students, their parents — my friends.
One of the parents at my school, a Greek-American
dad who loves his children and those who take care
of them, came over to meat a soccer game and
said, “Mississippi has been in the news.” I said,
“Yeah, I’m not proud.”
After I heard that Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant had
passed HB1523, I had to wonder if all of the places
I frequented as a boy in the Magnolia State with my
Southern Baptist parents would welcome me — still
the same person, still gay — back again.
My experience for the first 18 years of my life in
Mississippi was very much limited to the company
of people who looked and lived just like me. I
attended an independent school, which was nearly
100 percent white, and the diversity amongst the
students and faculty rested almost solely on which
Protestant denomination each person belonged to.

Use the passage to answer the question.
Which excerpt alludes to a central idea of the
passage: experiencing diversity leads to
greater tolerance?
(1 point)
“After 24 years in Mississippi and six in
Alabama, I’m moving to Ohio to teach
at a boarding school.”

“My experience for the first 18 years of
my life in Mississippi was very much
limited to the company of people who
looked and lived just like me.”

“For now, I feel like Quentin Compson
from William Faulkner’s ‘Absalom!,
Absalom!’, who, when asked ‘Why do
you hate the South?’”

“. . . the students I teach are infinitely
more worldly wise and accepting of
differences than I was at their age.”

Question 2

Use the passage to answer the question.
Which selection alludes to a central idea of
the passage: anti-LGBTQ laws can cause
psychological stress?

“Still, the South is a complicated place,
as illustrated by two letters of
recommendation I wrote back-to-back a
few years ago. One letter was for a selfidentified conservative, who was
president of the Young Republicans. He
and his family remain good friends and
they accept me and love me for who I
am. Part of who I am is gay.”

“I’ve spent a good amount of time in the
past several years trying to complicate
how people view ‘queerness in the
South,’ particularly through my work on
the publication of an anthology of
LGBTQ writers and teaching courses in
queer literature and theory. Many
different people wanted to be a part of
an anthology that grappled with what it
meant to lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender or queer in the South.”

“I understood then that education, as
John Dewey would argue, is
experiential. And of utmost importance
is the experience of difference and
ambiguity. That’s not something I was
able to think about until later in life;
perhaps that lack of experience made
my own coming out much more pained
than it needed to be.”

“After I heard that Mississippi Gov. Phil
Bryant had passed HB1523, I had to
wonder if all of the places I frequented
as a boy in the Magnolia State with my
Southern Baptist parents would
welcome me—still the same person,
still gay—back again.


Question 3

Use the passage to answer the question.
Which statement from the text alludes to the
central idea that acceptance of diversity can
come from experiencing differences and
ambiguity? Select the two correct answers.
(1 point)

“ . . . I had to wonder if all of the places I
frequented as a boy . . . would welcome
me—still the same person, still gay—
back again.”

“My experience for the first 18 years of
my life in Mississippi was very much
limited to the company of people who
looked and lived just like me.”
“. . . education, as John Dewey would
argue, is experiential. And of utmost
importance is the experience of
difference and ambiguity.”

“But we also forgive. That’s been the
hardest thing for me to do for
Mississippi—forgive.”

“. . . the students I teach are infinitely
more worldly wise and accepting of
differences than I was at their age.

Question 4

Drag and drop the words into the correct locations. (1 point)

Authors choose a ________ , text structure] that helps organize and develop the _______
central idea over the course of a given text

Options: detail, central idea, topic, allusion, text structure

Question 5

How can readers trace the development of a central idea? Select the two correct answers.
(1 point)
by assessing the included details
by defining vocabulary
by rewriting the thesis statement
by researching allusions
by analyzing the text structure


Pls tell me you're from connections and you have the right answers

Answer 1

Question 1:

The excerpt that alludes to the central idea that experiencing diversity leads to greater tolerance is:

“. . . the students I teach are infinitely more worldly wise and accepting of differences than I was at their age.”

Question 2:

The selection that alludes to the central idea that anti-LGBTQ laws can cause psychological stress is:

“After I heard that Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant had passed HB1523, I had to wonder if all of the places I frequented as a boy in the Magnolia State with my Southern Baptist parents would welcome me—still the same person, still gay—back again.”

Question 3:

The statements from the text that allude to the central idea that acceptance of diversity can come from experiencing differences and ambiguity are:

“. . . education, as John Dewey would argue, is experiential. And of utmost importance is the experience of difference and ambiguity.”

“. . . the students I teach are infinitely more worldly wise and accepting of differences than I was at their age.”

Question 4:

Authors choose a [text structure] that helps organize and develop the [central idea] over the course of a given text.

Question 5:

Readers can trace the development of a central idea by:

- Assessing the included details

- Analyzing the text structure

Step-by-step explanation: