1. Question Styles

2. 1 “Wouldn’t it have made more sense if they’d just dropped us off together? “Not if they’re hoping for diversity. The more groups struggling to survive dependently, the more discoveries, the more inventions, the more chances that the colonization will succeed.” “A robot ship,” Brad suggested, “with lots of little eggs, each with ten settlers. Flying low 5 dropping evenly over the countryside. “Like a farmer sowing seed,” put in Benta. 22) This selection contains a. a simile in line six. b. hyperbole in line three. c. a metaphor in line one. d. personification in line two. OLD Style - Identification

3. 4. Read the lines from the text. “There is nothing weird about a company doing this—commissioning a story about people using a technology to decide if the technology is worth following through on. It’s like an architect creating a virtual fly-through of a building.” Doctorow has seen both sides of the development process. What effect does the author create by using the words It’s like an architect creating a virtual fly-through of a building.” a. The language shows how new the idea is. b. The language helps the reader see the fiction as a preview. c. The language suggests design fiction is unnecessary. d. The language helps the reader better understand changes in technology. M-STEP Style – Author’s Intention/ Effect

4. 8. This question has two parts. First answer Part A. Then answer Part B. Part A Which of these inferences about the author’s purpose is supported by the text? (Choose two options.) a. she wants to show a connection between science fiction and technology. b. she wants to show ideas from science fiction novels are implausible. c. She want to show how science fiction can have a positive influence on our future. d. She wants to show utopian futures are prevalent in today’s science fiction. M-STEP Style – Two Part Questioning

5. Part B Which sentence from the text best supports your answer from Part A? a. Writers may find the future appealing precisely because it can’t be known. b. Some corporations hire authors to create what-if stories about potentially marketable products. c. At the MIT Media Lab, instructors Sophia Brueckner and Dan Novy were surprised to discover that many incoming students had never read science fiction. d. “I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups, rather than to make men happy.”