Question 1

Imagine Holmes is advising a peer. Based on her essay, what advice would she most likely give someone struggling with being ghosted?

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To focus on understanding the broader cultural context of ghosting.

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To immediately seek out a new romantic connection.

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To avoid all digital communication in future relationships.

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To confront the ghoster directly for closure.

Question 2

If a school wanted to help students deal with ghosting better, what is the most important new program they could start, based on the essay's insights?

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Creating open forums for discussing relationship ethics.

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Teaching students how to send clear breakup texts.

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Requiring students to report all instances of ghosting.

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Having a class on the history of communication technology.

Question 3

The phrase “abandonment with a contemporary garnish” acts as what type of rhetorical device?

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A metaphor making an old behavior modern.

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Understatement creating emotional distance.

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Hyperbole making online cruelty dramatic.

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Irony lessening ghosting's seriousness.

Question 4

How is Holmes’s tone best described when she talks about her own dating story?

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Honest yet analytical.

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Distant and scientific.

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Emotional and forgiving.

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Defensive and blaming.

Question 5

What is the main role of the anecdote about the "divorced dad"?

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To make a general cultural idea personal.

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To make fun of dating self-help advice.

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To show flaws in cultural critics' ideas.

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To lower Pettman’s expert standing.

Question 6

Holmes uses phrases like “thanks—be well!” and “blocked him.” What does this reveal about her?

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She knows about digital manners and irony.

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She tends to idealize short connections.

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She refuses to follow social norms.

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She wants to make up and find closure.

Question 7

By bringing in psychologist Gili Freedman, Holmes improves her argument by doing what?

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Building expert trustworthiness.

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Appealing to feelings for ghosters.

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Comparing different data.

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Showing apologies are useless.

Question 8

Holmes calling apologies “performances of nicety” shows which rhetorical strategy?

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An ethical appeal showing self-interest behind good manners.

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A joking appeal making fun of romantic ties.

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A logical appeal proving apologies ease tension.

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An emotional appeal valuing truth and honesty.

Question 9

When Holmes says the ghoster “became a different sort of ghost—one of my making,” what literary device is she using?

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Paradox to show mutual loss of humanity.

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Analogy between saying sorry and punishment.

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Simile comparing memory to technology.

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Euphemism making emotional distance sound softer.

Question 10

How does mixing personal stories with scholarly quotes best serve the author's purpose?

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By blending personal and academic proof.

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By repeating ideas to show frustration.

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By straying from the main point.

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By giving in, which hurts her standing.

Question 11

Pettman’s idea that detaching is a “necessary skill” helps the essay's central paradox by doing what?

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Showing that breaking off contact can be helpful.

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Proving technology makes people more moral.

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Rejecting the feelings that come with caring.

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Suggesting ghosting no longer happens offline.

Question 12

How can the author’s tone in the last part be best described?

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Accepting yet curious.

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Happy about digital freedom.

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Negative and dismissing modern dating.

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Missing old-fashioned romance.

Question 13

Which statement best shares the article’s main point?

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Ghosting is both common and very important.

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Ghosting shows moral decay unique to today.

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Ghosting mainly hurts those who do it.

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Ghosting will go away as tech changes.

Question 14

When Holmes asks questions like “Should we care?”, what is her main goal?

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To make readers think about shared social actions.

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To hint at future data about dating.

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To make fun of those who downplay emotional pain.

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To sum up what experts agree on about relationships.

Question 15

The change from talking about others to talking about herself means a shift from what to what?

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Objective reporting to personal thoughts.

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Academic style to neutral journalism.

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Irony to simple explanation.

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Moral judgment to scientific logic.

Question 16

The essay's structure—theory, then story, then analysis—best helps with which AP Lang skill?

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Seeing how structure builds an argument.

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Checking if data is enough as proof.

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Finding patterns in descriptive language.

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Telling stories apart from explanations.

Question 17

Holmes mentions The New York Times and The New Yorker mainly to do what?

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To place her ideas within current cultural talks.

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To make fun of fancy media's dating focus.

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To contrast serious news with social media.

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To give facts that back up Pettman’s data.

Question 18

The essay ends by saying ghosting might show “alienation from community.” How does this widen the argument?

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By connecting a private act to society breaking apart.

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By making emotional pain only about biology.

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By praising being alone as personal freedom.

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By proving all past psychology studies wrong.

Question 19

The essay mixes humor and criticism. What rhetorical effect does this create?

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Balancing being relatable with deep thinking.

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Putting fun over true meaning.

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Changing tone to appeal to young readers.

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Hurting trustworthiness through too much sarcasm.

Question 20

What is the author’s purpose in mixing research with a personal story?

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To see how personal events show common patterns.

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To show personal stories aren't trustworthy.

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To prove academic studies make feelings invalid.

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To favor expert views over real-life events.

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