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Question 41 (1 point)

The following sentence is not a statement…

Question 41 options:

	Seven minus five is equal to three.
	Go determine the quality of your beliefs.
	The taco salad is excellent today!
	There is no time like the present to do a good deed.

Argument or Not? If argument what's the conclusion? If nonargument, what kind?

Determine whether the following are arguments are not. If an argument, state the conclusion. If not an argument, state what kind of nonargument it is.

Question 42 (1 point)

Mosquito bites are not always the harmless little irritations most of us take them to be. That this is so can be seen from the fact that, for example, some mosquitoes carry West Nile virus, and people who are infected can become very sick or even die. The same is true of the mosquito-borne disease, malaria, in the tropics.

Question 42 options:

	a) Nonargument Expository Passage
	b) Nonargument Statement of Opinion
	c) Argument (from Examples) Mosquito bites are not always the harmless little irritations most of us take them to be.
	d) Nonargument Explanation
	e) Argument More money needs to be spent on mosquito control to prevent their harmful bites.

Question 43 (1 point)

Poverty looks pretty great if you're not living in it. The government gives you free money to spend on whatever you want: steak and lobster, on tattoos and spa days, on — why not? — cruise vacations and psychic visits. Enough serious-minded people seem to think this is what the poor actually buy with their meager aid that we've now seen a raft of bills and proposed state laws to nudge them away from so much excess. But the logic behind the proposals is problematic in . . . really big ways. . . . [First,] [t]here's virtually no evidence that the poor actually spend their money this way. . . . In fact, the poor are much more savvy about how they spend their money because they have less of it . . . . By definition, a much higher share of their income — often more than half of it — is eaten up by basic housing costs than is true for the better-off, leaving them less money for luxuries anyway. And contrary to the logic of drug-testing laws, the poor are no more likely to use drugs than the population at large. . . [In fact,] [w]e rarely make similar demands of other recipients of government aid. We don't drug-test farmers who receive agriculture subsidies (lest they think about plowing while high!). . . . We don't require wealthy families who cash in on the home mortgage interest deduction to prove that they don't use their homes as brothels (because surely someone out there does this). The strings that we attach to government aid are attached uniquely for the poor.

Question 43 options:

	a) Argument Poverty looks pretty great if you're not living in it.
	b) Nonargument Explanation
	c) Argument There's virtually no evidence that poor people actually spend their money in extravagant ways.
	d) Argument The strings that we attach to government aid are attached uniquely for the poor.
	e) Nonargument Illustration
	f) Argument "The logic behind the proposals [to ensure that poor people do not use government assistance on luxuries or illegal activities rather than necessities] is problematic . . . in really big ways."

Question 44 (1 point)

"I have been studying the French language, with some consistency, for three years. This field of study has been, all at once, the hardest and most rewarding of my life. . . . But here I am, right now, in a Montreal hotel. I spoke French at the border. I spoke French when I checked in. I spoke French when I went to get lunch. . . . [Still,] I mishear words. I confuse tenses. I can't really use the subjunctive. Yet.”

– Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Atlantic

Question 44 options:

	a) Argument I mishear words.
	b) Nonargument Explanation
	c) Argument I have been studying the French language, with some consistency, for three years.
	d) Nonargument Report
	e) Argument Studying French has been, all at once, the hardest and most rewarding of my life.
	f) Nonargument Warning

Answer 1

41. The correct answer is Option B. This is not an example of a statement.

42. The correct answer is Option C. This is an argument from examples.

43. The correct answer is Option F. This is the argument.

44. The correct answer is Option D. This is a non argument and a report.