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Is Survival Selfish HMH Assessment
By Chad Parmentier
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Question 1
1.
Which is the best summary of the selection?
In moments of mortal danger, more people freeze than run, a response that goes against our survival instincts.
Heroes are admired when they risk or sacrifice their own lives to save others, but their actions go against accepted survival protocols, which prioritize personal safety.
In extreme crises, people either hold it together or fall apart, and there is no telling who the heroes will be until danger strikes.
People who demonstrate the virtue of selfishness by putting their own lives before the lives of others in an emergency are often criticized publicly and in the press.
Question 2
2.
Read this sentence from paragraph 2 of the selection.
The “women and children first”
protocol
of the Titanic may not be as strong a social stricture as it was a century ago.
Which word is a synonym for protocol as the author uses it in this sentence?
Falsehood
Law
Structure
Convention
Question 3
3.
In paragraph 3, the author states that every survival situation is different. If this is true, it follows that —
it is impossible to be smart and unselfish
each survivor is heroic in their own way
it is impossible to generalize about survivors
only a few survivors are selfish and uncivilized
Question 4
4.
Why does the author include her personal experience about the Grand Central Station incident in paragraphs 4–5?
To introduce the idea that sometimes people’s instincts are not about survival
To highlight the difference between those who survive and those who don’t
To prove she’s an expert during survival situations
To explain why she become interested in the topic of survival
Question 5
5.
According to the author, why do survivors often experience feelings of guilt?
They are reminded of when they didn’t help others at other times of their lives.
They feel that the techniques others used to survive were unethical.
They are disturbed by the harsh criticisms from others who survived.
They believe they should have done more to help others during the event.
Question 6
6.
Which two phrases best explain the author's reasons for including the rhetorical questions in paragraph 11?
To make the point that some people act selflessly in emergencies
To engage readers by asking them to imagine specific survival situations
To pass judgment on people who are driven by their survival instincts
To propose that it is possible to predict how people will respond in emergencies
To suggest that people should attempt to rescue others when emergencies arise
Question 7
7.
How does the author support the claim that the “fight or flight” instinct kicks in during survival situations?
How does the author support the claim that the “fight or flight” instinct kicks in during survival situations?
By showing how humans flee when their survival is in jeopardy
By describing how humans and animals respond when they are in peril
By presenting examples of animals fighting back when they are attacked
Question 8
8.
In paragraph 14, the phrase a thousand cues is —
a hasty generalization, intended to convey that people do not know what they will do in a crisis
an overstatement, intended to convey that how people react depends on which signals, out of the many they receive, they respond to
an overstatement, intended to convey that survivors are able to respond to many signals at once
a hasty generalization, intended to convey that survivors are rarely aware of the choices they make in the moment of crisis
Question 9
9.
Which quotation from the selection is a statement of fact, and not an expression of opinion?
She got out of the plane and survived. Very few others in the plane, which was soon consumed by fire, did. (paragraph 7)
If she’d tried, she probably would have perished with them. (paragraph 8)
But Yates was criticized by some for his survival decision, even though the alternative would have almost certainly led to both of their deaths. (paragraph 10)
If survival is an instinct, it seems to me that there must be something equally instinctive that drives us, sometimes, to run into danger instead of away from it. (paragraph 12)
Question 10
10.
Which of these sentences requires a comma to distinguish and divide an independent clause from a dependent clause?
Yates cut the rope tying him to his friend because there was nothing else to be done.
Carly put a first aid kit in her car in case of an emergency.
Even though we have a survival instinct we sometimes face danger to save others.
People left the train station when they heard an explosion.