Comparing Genres: Biography and Editorial

Question 2 • LISD English II A

Which sentence best supports that the author’s purpose is to persuade readers the United States should change its refugee policy?

Answer

“If a house is burning, people will jump out the window.”

“I last went to Nueva Suyapa in 2003, to write about another boy, Luis Enrique Motino Pineda, who had grown up there and left to find his mother in the United States.”

“The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees recently interviewed 404 children who had arrived in the United States from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico. . . .”

“The United States should also increase to pre-9/11 levels the number of refugees we accept to 90,000 from the current 70,000 per year and, unlike in recent years, actually admit that many.”

Explanation

Choice D directly recommends a change in U.S. refugee policy: increasing the number of refugees accepted from 70,000 to 90,000 per year and admitting that many. The other choices provide an analogy, background, or evidence, but do not state the policy change the author wants readers to support.

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