Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. When our nation begins to use torture as a means to an end, we chip away at the values we profess to defend

Little by little and step by step, we coarsen our society. We cheapen ourselves until we become no different than those who commit acts of terror. At that point, what shall we make of ourselves? Joseph Neri, Letter to the Editor

A) Argument; conclusion: Little by little and step by step, we coarsen our society.

B) Argument; conclusion: At that point, what shall we make of ourselves?

C) Argument; conclusion: When our nation ... we profess to defend.

D) Argument; conclusion: We cheapen ourselves ... acts of terror.

E) Nonargument.


E

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