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Cause and Effect in An American Plague

Question 7 • FL-1001040-M/J Language Arts 2 A-CR

Read the passage from The American Plague.Knox found that his warrior instinct had abandoned him. He closed up his house and fled across New Jersey to Manhattan Island.Knox was turned away from Manhattan and wound up in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, where he spent two weeks in quarantine.This passage contains

Answer
A
the central cause of the story.
B
a cause-and-effect relationship.
C
signal words that explain a cause.
D
signal words that explain an effect.

Explanation

The passage shows events connected by cause and effect: Knox was turned away from Manhattan, so he ended up in Elizabethtown and spent two weeks in quarantine. The passage does not use a clear signal word such as “because” or “therefore”; the relationship is shown by what happens next. The correct choice is “a cause-and-effect relationship.”

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