<p>what were the answer choices and answer to the question:</p>
<p>squash
corn
herron
something else.</p>
<p>@sgt gutter</p>
<p>topic sentence does not necessarily determine the purpose. Plus, I don’t believe she is working with the nature conservancy. If she was, she would be working with scientists. Instead, she worked with a random native elder.</p>
<p>@sgtgutter the “something else” choice was ladybugs and the answer was herron.</p>
<p>answer to the main idea of paragraph was to show knowledge of elders. </p>
<p>source: 35 in reading on previous test.</p>
<p>@SgtGutter</p>
<p>The answer was the herron. While she deliberately planted the squash, corn, and [the other vegetable], the herron unintentionally landed in the garden.</p>
<p>just looked up francisco, turns out he’s part of the nature conservatory…</p>
<p>The topic sentence should define the purpose and main idea of the paragraph, and the topic sentence should be the first sentence. If that’s not the case the writing can’t be very good, and ACT certainly wouldn’t choose passages that feature bad writing.</p>
<p>new insight about the meaning of the paragraph question: in context, the entire passage focused on house’s work. so one paragraph probably wouldn’t be used to talk about the knowledge of the elders. it would most likely be to elaborate on another example of her work</p>
<p>So what is the answer to the question in the passage about Arkansas where it asks what her mother wanted her to have? Is it better future or history stuff?</p>
<p>@PlayerZero as the prose passage showed, stories don’t typically follow that strict and formal structure, as that would spoil the ending. (and she was most definitely recounting a story/event with that paragraph). i am sure that the answer was knowledge of elders. I don’t have access to the passage, but I can assure you it was obvious after considerable deliberation.</p>
<p>Hope I did we’ll this time I kinda dozed off of my first act and guessed in over half so my overall was 36 English 36 math 17 reading and 35 sciencd so 31 composite so ducking ****ed</p>
<p>@bhchamp, i’m looking at the passage right now. i still stand by my choice, but i guess we’ll find out in a few weeks!</p>
<p>What was the answer to what would her mother agree with?</p>
<p>Thats what i want to know. I put have a better life.</p>
<p>I don’t think its to have a better life, because the second part said because she was isolated in farm life.</p>
<p>Yea its the thing about history</p>
<p>@sgtgutter</p>
<p>Yeah I put an answer about history or something</p>
<p>Also, holy ****, a prose or news article (since we’ve established the source is from new york times) does NOT need to have a topic sentence that creates the purpose of the passage. The only times when the topic sentence clearly highlights the purpose is during an argumentative essay such as the writing section of the ACT. Those type of essays require strict organization to follow logical flow and order. However, articles like these are less restricted</p>
<p>But the “dizzy void” problem is this: the answers I got to were either they were in the second floor or they were afaird of heights. I think the second floor answer was wrong because it would be asumming they are on the 2nd floor not the 3rd or 4th. So being afaird of heights was probably correct.</p>
<p>I dont know though.</p>
<p>The passage said nothing about a fear of heights; you can’t just make that up because they’re high up.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure it was because they were up so high and looked down.</p>
<p>i put that it shows that they were high up, what were the other choices
i no for a fact it wasnt that that they were afraid of heights</p>