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analyzing differences in opinion: mastery test
select the correct answer.
how do the two arguments made in the passages differ?
standardized testing: just what the teacher ordered
a
the first passage claims that standardized testing benefits teachers, while the second passage says it
benefits students.
b.
the first passage claims that students benefit from standardized testing, while the second passage says
they suffer due to it.
the first passage claims that testing will lessen stress on students, while the second passage claims it will
increase students' stress.
c
standardized testing of students means that all students are
given the same test or the same kind of test. standardized
testing is useful not just to students but also their teachers. the
students scores show the effectiveness of the teacher. if
students do not show good results, the teacher can be held
responsible. a student's scores also can be used by teachers to
pinpoint the student's weak areas. standardized testing makes
sure that no student is ever ignored. standardized testing also
allows teachers to see how the student compares with other
students in other schools or states. in this way, schools can
pinpoint if the problem is with the student or with the school
itself. best of all, standardized tests allow students to be graded
fairly. students will no longer suffer because a teacher has
favorite students. instead, all students will be treated the same,
regardless of their backgrounds or differences.
d.
the first passage claims that standardized tests will increase creativity, while the second passage claims
will decrease creativity.
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with mrs. linde, nora reveals her insensitivity and lack of shame about the forgery she committed. she implies that mrs. linde has obviously aged since they last met 10 years earlier, which accounts for nora’s inability to recognize her old friend. although nora seems sympathetic to mrs. linde’s plight, she can’t seem to control herself from boasting about her three children, her husband’s recent promotion, and how good she feels to finally have some money to spend. in a way, she seems to be flaunting her good fortune in front of mrs. linde who, deprived of all these benefits, has come to ask nora for . it is also through her interactions with mrs. linde that we realize something deeper lies under nora’s seemingly childish exterior. she reveals the secret of her forgery to mrs. linde and seems to see herself as quite resourceful for having done it.

in the company of dr. rank, nora is freer than she is with her own husband. she openly laughs with joy at knowing that all the other bank employees will be under her husband’s control. she offers dr. rank a macaroon, apparently forgetting that he knows she is forbidden to eat them. she then quickly covers for herself by claiming that mrs. linde brought them. nora seems much more assertive and free with these other characters, as well as unabashedly willing to scheme, lie, and justify her transgressions as altruistic.  

krogstad provides an interesting parallel to nora. like nora, he too is guilty of committing forgery, for which torvald condemns him and decides to fire him. although krogstad is a man and nora a woman, their crimes of forgery unite them. in fact, krogstad might represent what nora would be like if she were a man and were not strictly scrupulous like her husband is. for example, she tells mrs. linde that "a barrister's profession is such an uncertain thing, especially if he won't undertake unsavoury cases; and naturally torvald has never been willing to do that." perhaps nora would have delved into the unsavory, given how opposite she is to her husband. krogstad's is also the only harsh voice of reality that nora is forced to hear, and that is because he blackmails her for her regaining his job at the bank. finally, torvald’s reaction to krogstad’s forgery seems to foreshadow his harsh and cold reaction to nora’s forgery.