Text-Dependent Questions

Directions. For the following questions, choose the best answer or respond in complete sentences.

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PART A Which statement identifies the central idea of the text?

The people who are most successful think of failures as caused by uncontrollable forces rather than their own decisions

Studies have shown that people are more upset about failures caused by their own actions rather than those outside of their control In the face of failure, it's beneficial for people to focus on the things they can control including how they respond to the failure.

People with stress in their lives are less likely to try again after a failure

therefore, it's important to remain calm and positive in the face of failure.

PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to PartS?

"Bhans team wanted to find out what strategies people use to forge ahead after failing To test this they brought 30 volunteers into a lab and had them play a computer game" (Paragraph 5)

Activity here dropped off when players brushed off a failure that had been within their control (such as guessing the wrong key and failing that so-called exam)." (Paragraph 9)

So when failures are beyond someone's control, he says, rethinking our emotional responses seems to help. (Paragraph 11)

This could mean that when people are under stress, they are only motivated to Torque on if they can learn from their setbacks." (Paragraph 13)

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How does paragraph 2 contribute to the development of ideas in the text

shows how there are different causes of failure.

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D.

It emphasizes how frustrating failures outside of our control can be R reveals the different ways that people perceive failure,

t introduces the best way for someone to approach a challenge.

How can Bhans study affect other people's experiences with failure?

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Bhans data show people how they can benefit from failing and trying again B Bans data prove that people should try to avoid failure when approaching challenges Banhis data encourage people to rethink their definition of failure.

Shanis data show people what response to failure will make them

either a donut or a sphere or a pancake or a flat sphere. it depends on where the vertical line is.

if the line goes through the center of the circle and is perpendicular to a diameter containing the center, then you get a flat circle.

if the line and the diameter of a the circle meet in the center of the diameter and at an angle, you get a pancake.

if the line is on the circumference of the circle and is at right angles   to the circle you get a ring.

if the line contains the diameter, you get a sphere.

the the line is parallel to the diameter and touches the circumference, you get a donut.

that is true because that is something they fulfill for their work.

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.