AP Skills Lesson: Multiple-Choice Reading Questions Answers

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The primary message of this passage is that

people can create paradise in their daily lives.

people will suffer less if they have the right perspective.

the audience’s perspective on life brings hardship.

the world contains pain and suffering that cannot be avoided.

unhappy people can find paradise when they start caring less.

Which statement best explains the nature of the reading question?

The street view question assesses a student’s ability to make an inference about why the writer chose to shift his tone.

The street view question assesses a student’s ability to analyze how word choice reveals the writer’s overall tone.

The satellite view question assesses a student’s ability to infer how an audience will respond to the shift in tone.

The satellite view question assesses a student’s ability to interpret the writer’s shift in tone throughout the argument.

Access your reading passage in PDF or word-processing format.The primary purpose of the concluding paragraph (lines 48–53) is to provide

a call to action to draw all the good we can from this world.

recommendations to live a more productive life and avoid suffering.

emphasis for the need to think carefully about the costs of what we desire.

empathy for those who make errors in estimating the value of things.

an example of something the writer would be willing to pay too much for.

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