Develop Claims With Evidence: Fiction/Drama Practice Test
•15 QuestionsIn the following excerpt from an original drama, a son returns to his hometown and meets his former coach. Which choice provides the strongest evidence to support the claim that Coach Danner attempts to rewrite the past to avoid accountability?
Stage: Bleachers at a dim field. The scoreboard is dark, but its numbers are still visible like scars.
CALEB: You benched me the night scouts came.
COACH DANNER: I don’t remember it that way.
CALEB: I remember sitting alone while you told the crowd I had “an attitude problem.”
COACH DANNER: (chuckles) Kids take things personally.
CALEB: You told my mom I was “not coachable.”
COACH DANNER: I said you were passionate.
CALEB: That’s not what you said.
COACH DANNER: (leans back) Memory is a tricky tape. It stretches.
CALEB: Mine doesn’t.
COACH DANNER: Then you should learn to forgive it.
In the following excerpt from an original drama, a son returns to his hometown and meets his former coach. Which choice provides the strongest evidence to support the claim that Coach Danner attempts to rewrite the past to avoid accountability?
Stage: Bleachers at a dim field. The scoreboard is dark, but its numbers are still visible like scars.
CALEB: You benched me the night scouts came.
COACH DANNER: I don’t remember it that way.
CALEB: I remember sitting alone while you told the crowd I had “an attitude problem.”
COACH DANNER: (chuckles) Kids take things personally.
CALEB: You told my mom I was “not coachable.”
COACH DANNER: I said you were passionate.
CALEB: That’s not what you said.
COACH DANNER: (leans back) Memory is a tricky tape. It stretches.
CALEB: Mine doesn’t.
COACH DANNER: Then you should learn to forgive it.