Read the following passage:And before we judge them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals such as the vanquished bison and the dodo, but upon its own inferior races.H. G. Wells, The War of the WorldsThe passage is from a science fiction story about an alien invasion of Earth. What tone is created by the phrase "ruthless and utter destruction"?A.FunnyB.ConfusedC.GuiltyD.SuspensefulSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Read the following passage:And before we judge them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals such as the vanquished bison and the dodo, but upon its own inferior races.H. G. Wells, The War of the WorldsThis passage is from a science fiction story about an alien invasion of Earth that was written in 1898. What historical theme might create a strong emotional response in readers during that time?A.The tendency of religions of the time to judge othersB.The brutality of the experience of colonialismC.The experience of world warsD.The beginning of cloning experiments with animalsSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Read the following transcript of the end of Orson Welles's radio broadcast of the War of the Worlds, in which a narrator remembers a time when aliens invaded Earth. During the radio broadcast, many audience members became convinced that the story of an alien invasion was truly happening.We annihilated the world before your very ears tonight, and utterly destroyed the C.B.S. You will be relieved, I hope, to learn that we didn't mean it, and that both institutions are still open for business. So goodbye everybody, and remember the terrible lesson you learned tonight. That grinning, glowing, globular invader of your living room is an inhabitant of the pumpkin patch, and if your doorbell rings and nobody's there, that was no Martian . . . it's Hallowe'en.Based on the transcript, what did Welles most likely want people to consider after listening to his broadcast?A.That the book of The War of the Worlds is better than the radio playB.How vulnerable they were to the messages of mediaC.How damaging radio is to people's moralityD.That the events really could happenSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

What evidence from the novel The War of the Worlds supports the theme that humans are too vain and shouldn't take their safety for granted?A.The Martians seem to have calculated their descent with amazing subtlety — their mathematical learning is evidently far in excess of ours — and to have carried out their preparations with a well-nigh perfect unanimity.B.We must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races.C.It required a certain amount of scientific education to perceive that the grey scale of the Thing was no common oxide, that the yellowish-white metal that gleamed in the crack between the lid and the cylinder had an unfamiliar hue.D.No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Montaigne employs harsh, selective vocabulary to spark reader outrage and to make his audience analyze their own culture. Which of the following phrases are examples of his thought-provoking tone? Select all that apply.“it represents instead an extreme form of vengeance”“we have entirely stifled her [Mother Nature]”“quite close to their original naïvet锓we have bastardized them”

Deceptively, the alien creatures first appeared to be --------, but after a few weeks, the creatures revealed their true ------ nature by attempting to rule the planet.ResponsesA docile . . . savagedocile . . . savageB unhappy . . . melancholyunhappy . . . melancholyC unkind . . . compassionateunkind . . . compassionateD objective . . . correlativeobjective . . . correlativeE impressive . . . ostentatiousimpressive . . . ostentatious