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Explain Evidence & Reasoning: Fiction/Drama Practice Test
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Read the excerpt from an original drama. A student claims the playwright characterizes Eli as avoiding responsibility by turning confession into a joke. Which option best explains how the bolded evidence supports that claim through reasoning?
Basement rehearsal space. A guitar leans against an amp. TESS holds a broken metronome. ELI sits on a drum stool.
TESS: You borrowed it.
ELI: Borrowed implies return.
TESS: Eli.
ELI: I meant to.
TESS: It’s snapped in half.
ELI (grinning): Then it’s two metronomes. Double the rhythm.
TESS: Stop.
ELI: I’m helping.
TESS: Just say you broke it.
ELI: “I’m saying it in a fun way.”
Student claim: Eli uses humor to dodge accountability.
Read the excerpt from an original drama. A student claims the playwright characterizes Eli as avoiding responsibility by turning confession into a joke. Which option best explains how the bolded evidence supports that claim through reasoning?
Basement rehearsal space. A guitar leans against an amp. TESS holds a broken metronome. ELI sits on a drum stool.
TESS: You borrowed it.
ELI: Borrowed implies return.
TESS: Eli.
ELI: I meant to.
TESS: It’s snapped in half.
ELI (grinning): Then it’s two metronomes. Double the rhythm.
TESS: Stop.
ELI: I’m helping.
TESS: Just say you broke it.
ELI: “I’m saying it in a fun way.”
Student claim: Eli uses humor to dodge accountability.