Read the passage. I found out what a Rorshach is. It's the test I took before
the operation—the one with the inkblots on the pieces of
cardboard. The man who gave me the test was the
same one. I was scared to death of those inkblots. I
knew he was going to ask me to find the pictures and I
knew I wouldn't be able to. I was thinking to myself, if
only there was some way of knowing what kind of
pictures were hidden there. Maybe there weren't any
pictures at all. Maybe it was just a trick to see if I was
dumb enough to look for something that wasn't there.
Just thinking about that made me sore at him.

Which words from the passage would most likely signal
the reader to read in a concerned tone?

“found out what a Rorshach is."

"The man who gave me the test was the same one."

"I was scared to death of those inkblots."

"Just thinking about that made me sore at him."

overnment is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.

we need more information in order to answer.

the correct answer is b. in order to explain a point clearly in an essay, it is always better to include a clear example of your ideas. including an scenario in which a family is affected by consumerism will support your argument as well as supporting details, such as quotations from experts and statistics. option a could be correct, but statistics and quotations are supporting ideas rather than clear explanations. choices c and d are simply inadequate. they do not add information about the effects of consumerism, rather they are strategies for engaging the reader