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Modified Ellipsis Formative

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Use the following excerpt from the essay "All Too Human Gods" to answer this question:
Which answer uses the ellipsis to omit information to provide the best evidence to support the idea that the Greek Gods who lived on Mt. Olympus were a dysfunctional family?
Dysfunctional: deviating from the norms of social behavior in a way regarded as bad.

Zeus who had several wives and many girlfriends was always arguing with Hera (one of his wives) and easily outwitted. In addition, Zeus was vengeful. Once after Hera persuaded other gods to be a part of a plot that included drugging him, tying him down while he slept, and stealing his thunderbolt, Zeus swore to destroy them.

His wife, Hera (who was also his sister by the way), was understandably jealous. No one can blame her for punishing her husband whenever she could. Unfortunately, she was also cruel to unwitting mortal lovers. And she made life miserable for those children, including the hero Hercules and the vine god Dionysus.

Cronus was the youngest son of Uranus and Gaea, the leader of the first generation of Titans, and, for a brief period, the ruler of all gods and men. He successfully led the rebellion against his father, but soon he grew as tyrannical as him; Cronus imprisoned both the Cyclops and the Hecatoncheires, and swallowed all of his children. All of his children except one ; he saved the last son; eventually, this child – Zeus – would be the one to overthrow him and lock him away in Tartarus.
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Which answer uses the ellipsis to omit information to provide the best evidence to support the idea that the Greek Gods who lived on Mt. Olympus were a dysfunctional family?

Use the following excerpt from the myth “The Myth of Arachne and the Weaving Contest” to answer this question:
Which answer uses the ellipsis to omit information to provide the best evidence to support the characterization of Athena being angered by Arachne?

Arachne’s fame grew, and people came from far and wide to watch her at work. All of this attention made Arachne quite proud, and she began to think very highly of herself. In fact, Arachne boasted that she had nothing to learn from the goddess. - “What can she teach me?” Upon learning this, Athena was not pleased; she knew the limitations of mortals.
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Which answer uses the ellipsis to omit information to provide the best evidence to support the characterization of Athena being angered by Arachne?

Read the passage below and then answer the question that follows.
“When a tractor-trailer hauling 460 crated beehives overturned on a highway in Delaware, it unleashed millions of bees; firefighters used hoses to calm the bees and disperse them.”
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Is this an appropriate use of an ellipsis? Yes or No? Please explain.
"When a tractor-trailer . . . it unleashed millions of bees; firefighters used hoses to calm the bees and disperse them."

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Is this an appropriate use of an ellipsis? Please explain why you picked the answer (Yes or No) in the previous question.
"When a tractor-trailer . . . it unleashed millions of bees; firefighters used hoses to calm the bees and disperse them."

Read the passage below:
“ (1) The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the best-known in American history. (2) It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg.
(3) Abraham Lincoln's carefully crafted address, secondary to other presentations that day, was one of the greatest and most influential statements of national purpose. (4) In just over two minutes, Lincoln reiterated the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and proclaimed the Civil War as a struggle for the preservation of the Union sundered by the secession crisis, with "a new birth of freedom" that would bring true equality to all of its citizens.”
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Rewrite sentence 3 using an ellipsis to take out nonessential information.

Read the following passage which you will use to answer the following multiple choice questions.

Overcoming Challenges
“(1) My sister, Pilar, faced several challenges when she studied in Mexico City during her junior year of college. (2) One challenge happened before she even got on the plane. (3) She was in a car accident with two other cars that were speeding, and broke her left leg. (4) Even though this happened three weeks before she left, she had to board the airplane with a huge cast and crutches. (5) Once she was in Spain, she had to find a doctor to show her exercises for her leg so it healed properly. (6) In addition, when she arrived in Mexico, the woman who was supposed to meet her at the airport was not there. (7) She called the director of her school who told her not to leave the airport. (8) After she waited for four exhausting hours with her luggage and her broken leg, the woman arrived. (9) Finally, she faced the challenge of trying to speak and understand Spanish. (10) She had studied Spanish in both high school and college, but she knew using Spanish every day was different. (11) She had to buy groceries and negotiate prices at the market, as well as talk to a doctor to get the right treatment for her leg. (12) Each of these challenges was difficult, but she overcame them with her determination.”
-- Professor Annick, El Camino College
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Which use of an ellipsis does not change the meaning of sentence 3?

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Which is an appropriate use of an ellipsis in sentence 8?

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What else do you know about the ellipsis that you were not asked about on this assessment?