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Writing Workshop: Effective Professional Communication — Unit test Answers

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Roosevelt’s Executive Order No. 9066 was based on

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evidence that all Japanese Americans were plotting to fight the US within its borders.
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past experiences of Japanese Americans causing civil unrest in the United States.
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the assumption that Japanese Americans posed a threat to national security.
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written reports that Japan was recruiting American citizens to spy for them.
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I was relieved when the Crash came. I was released. Being in business was something I detested. When I found that I could sell a song or a poem, I became me, I became alive. Other people didn’t see it that way. They were throwing themselves out of windows.

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it allowed him to become a man of leisure who did not have to work anymore.
i
it forced him out of his comfort zone and into a brand new environment.
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it was easier to write songs about the Depression than about prosperity.
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it gave him the opportunity to develop and profit from his creativity.
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best

A
Add additional modifiers and phrases.
E
Eliminate powerful words.
I
Include words that state the obvious.
R
Remove unnecessary repetition.
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Fruit is a nutritious and energizing snack, and it’s also yummy.

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and it’s also delicious.
a
and we also think it tastes pretty good.
a
and we totally like it.
a
and most of us are pretty into it.
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They used to tell me I was building a dream With peace and glory ahead—

p
peace and glory were the ultimate goals of WWI.
t
the American dream was beyond reach.
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American businesses were imperishable.
t
there would always be work available.
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It is good for students to learn about health and be active throughout the school day.

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It is okay for students
I
It is cool for students
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It is fun for students
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It is essential for students
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Lucynell Crater falls asleep in the diner before she has a chance to eat her food, and she is left there by her husband.
M
Mrs. Crater gives her car to Mr. Shiftlet in hopes that he will marry her one and only daughter.
M
Mrs. Crater thinks she is gaining a son-in-law, when in fact Mr. Shiftlet takes her car, her money, and abandons her daughter at a diner.
M
Mr. Shiftlet appears at the plantation house and explains that even the best doctors cannot know what is in his heart.
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He held the pose for almost fifty seconds and then he picked up his box and came on to the porch and dropped down on the bottom step. “Lady,” he said in a firm nasal voice, “I’d give a fortune to live where I could see me a sun do that every evening.”

M
Mr. Shiftlet does not need a fortune, as he places no value on financial wealth or the security of having a permanent home.
I
Instead of staying at the plantation, where he can see sunsets like these for the rest of his life, he runs away with Mrs. Crater’s car and money.
A
According to Mrs. Crater, the sun sets like this every evening, and if he stays at the plantation, Mr. Shiftlet will see this regularly.
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No amount of money can ensure that an individual will witness a sunset to equal this one and will see it every single day.
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By signing Executive Order No. 9066, President Roosevelt assumed that

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no one would actually be interned in camps.
h
he was doing what was best for his nation.
h
his direction and command would end the war.
t
the internment camps would be permanent.
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The road was crowded and there were screens of corn-stalk and straw matting on both sides and matting over the top so that it was like the entrance at a circus or a native village.

a
a feeling of unease as the narrator is driving into a peculiar and alien location
a
a feeling of sadness at the devastation that has been caused by violence of war
a
a feeling of joy as the narrator realizes that he is alive despite all the carnage
a
a feeling of defeat about a war that has taken so many lives and still continues on
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No, let us go no further. Decency and custom forbid it. I said it earlier, when speaking of my grandfather: In Jewish tradition a man’s death belongs to him alone. Let the gas chambers remain closed to prying eyes, and to the imagination. We will never know all that happened behind those doors of steel.

Question illustration
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Inexperience can sometimes lead to misunderstanding.
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It’s important to follow tradition regardless of circumstance.
S
Some truths are too difficult to fathom if one has not experienced them.
T
There are times when one must be able to see in order to believe.

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