Publicity was another vital need — photos and eyewitness accounts of workers on the picket lines being harassed by gorillas and police. The picket lines themselves would have to be organized.
Which historical detail best helps clarify a reader’s understanding of the sentence?
A.
Unions at the time were dominated by men.
B.
“Gorillas” were hired men who threatened and hurt striking workers.
C.
“Shirtwaists” are what people call “blouses” today.
D.
Women’s clothing first began to be mass produced in the early twentieth century.
Yet what they wanted was modest enough: a fifty-two-hour week with extra pay for overtime, an end to the fines and petty tyrannies, and a living wage. These were the demands that were hammered out by the shop groups behind the closed doors of the meeting halls. The officers of Local 25 sent them on to the owners — along with one more demand, recognition of the union.
Which historical detail best helps clarify a reader’s understanding of the information in the excerpt?
A.
Female factory workers had to work long hours, sometimes up to eighty hours a week.
B.
Many union men believed that women factory workers would never come together to strike.
C.
Women’s clothing first began to be mass produced in the early twentieth century.
D.
“Gorillas” were men who were hired to threaten and harass striking factory workers.
When is the best time to reread a difficult passage in a text?
A.
right after reading it the first time
B.
after reading all of the remaining text
C.
when rereading the whole text a different day
D.
after reading something besides the text
A strike fund would have to be raised, an information bureau set up where strikers could register for relief, or for help with legal and personal problems. Publicity was another vital need — photos and eyewitness accounts of workers on the picket lines being harassed by gorillas and police. The picket lines themselves would have to be organized.
Why was publicity a vital need for the strikers?
A.
They needed help paying their bills while not working.
B.
They needed to register for legal and personal information.
C.
They needed the nation to hear and see their story.
D.
They needed their picket lines to be organized.
Traffic, both horses and autos, had been stopped cold, and some two hundred police reserves and plainclothesmen had been called out to maintain order. It seemed the army might at any moment erupt into the rest of Manhattan, invading Wall Street and the Bowery. By ten o’-clock 15,000 workers had left their machines. By nightfall, 25,000. Within the next few days the number rose to nearly 30,000, and it included some cutters, pressers, and finishers.
Which best states one of the author’s purposes for including this information in the text?
A.
to give the reader important facts about a historical event
B.
to describe what a historical event felt like to a participant
C.
to tell the reader how a historical event affects people today
D.
to persuade the reader that a historical event was tragic
Nobody had, since this was the first "general strike" in the garment trades, also the largest strike of women workers ever known in the United States until that moment.
Which best states the author’s purpose for including this information in the text?
A.
to connect a historical event to the present
B.
to bring a person involved in a historical event to life
C.
to challenge the reader’s ideas about a historical event
D.
to tell the reader about an important historical event
No anon is wrong if u do it u get a 1/6
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so what is correct?
1. B
2. B
3. A
4. A
5. D
6.D
corrct answers
B
B
A
C
D
B
ITS 100%
1. In order to clarify a reader's understanding of the sentence, the historical detail that best helps is option B. "Gorillas" were hired men who threatened and hurt striking workers.
2. To clarify the information in the excerpt, the historical detail that best helps is option D. "Gorillas" were men who were hired to threaten and harass striking factory workers.
3. The best time to reread a difficult passage in a text is option B. after reading all of the remaining text.
4. The reason why publicity was a vital need for the strikers is option C. They needed the nation to hear and see their story.
5. The author's purpose for including the information in the text about the involvement of police and the number of workers participating in the strike is to give the reader important facts about a historical event, which is option A.
6. The author's purpose for including the information in the text about this being the first "general strike" in the garment trades and the largest strike of women workers in the United States until that moment is to connect a historical event to the present, which is option A.
is anon correct?
@the real answers are is wrong I only got a 1/6 using his answers
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The Answers Are
1. B
2. B
3. B
4. C
5. D
6. B