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Holding your reading under attack

English · English Thinking · ages 15-16
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. What is the conditional test?

    • Counting your quotations twice
    • Writing the rival paragraph first
    • Naming the line the rival needs

  2. What is the honest first move with a rival reading?

    • State your view, then build the rival at its strongest
    • Hide the rival from the examiner
    • Mock the rival before stating it

  3. Changing your mind when evidence breaks your reading is a skill.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. A rival needs one line the text never gives. What follows?

    • Your reading holds, since those words are absent
    • The rival wins by intention
    • Both readings must be dropped

  5. Your reading explains three lines, the rival explains one. What do you write?

    • Both readings are equal in force
    • Yours holds; say where each wins
    • The rival wins for honesty

  6. An alternative reading deserves its own paragraph, judged with shared evidence.

    Circle one:   True   False

  7. Two readings split the evidence evenly. What is the sharpest move?

    • Pretend the split does not exist
    • Weigh each line openly and hold the one that explains more
    • Pick the reading you met first

  8. A student keeps a dead reading after three lines vote against it. What failed?

    • The paragraphing of the essay
    • The choice of quotations
    • Duty to drop a dead reading
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Answer key

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  1. Naming the line the rival needs · Name what the rival needs. If those words are absent, your reading holds.
  2. State your view, then build the rival at its strongest · Claims must survive attack. Only a strong rival is a real test.
  3. True · It proves you answer to evidence. Clinging to a dead reading fails.
  4. Your reading holds, since those words are absent · The conditional test decides. Missing words mean the rival falls.
  5. Yours holds; say where each wins · Weigh both on shared quotes. Grant the one line, then hold the three.
  6. True · Parking it separately keeps two readings clear instead of tangled.
  7. Weigh each line openly and hold the one that explains more · Examiners reward the weighing, not just the winning. Show it line by line.
  8. Duty to drop a dead reading · Evidence is the master. A beaten reading must be dropped and named.
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