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1. The mention of placards, protesters, and death threats
suggests which of the following?

a. In the United States, people feel strongly enough about

abortion to protest it and sometimes to make threats.

b. The doctor was perhaps unfriendly because she felt

threatened.

c. Freedom of speech gives people the right to protest laws
they do not agree with.

d. all of the above

2. According to the essay, who else was in the waiting room?

a. young women

b. teenage girls with their mothers
c. couples

d. no one

3. What is the sound of vacuuming that the author hears, first in

another room and then closer?
a. The clinic is kept spotlessly clean, and each room is

vacuumed after a procedure.

b. The vacuum is the apparatus that is used to perform the

abortion.

c. The author is in a dreamy haze; the vacuuming could be
any sound in the surroundings.

d. Custodians are probably vacuuming the hallways.

4. Much of the portion of the essay that takes place in the clinic is

written in passive voice: “The clipboard taken away” . . . “I was