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1. part b: what evidence supports your answer from part a?

a. “april for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime.”
b. “and it was in that clammy month that the h - g men took george and hazel bergerons fourteen - year - old son, harrison, away.”
c. “every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like george from taking unfair advantage of their brains.”
4 george and hazel were watching television. there were tears on hazels cheeks, but shed forgotten for the moment what they were about.
5 on the television screen were ballerinas.
6 a buzzer sounded in georges head. his thoughts fled in panic, like bandits from a burglar alarm.
7 \that was a real pretty dance, that dance they just did,\ said hazel
8 \huh\ said george.
9 \that dance - it was nice,\ said hazel.
10 \yup,\ said george. he tried to think a little about the ballerinas. they werent really very good - no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. they were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. george was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldnt be handicapped. but he didnt get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts.

1. how does the transmitter affect george?

a. the transmitter helps george honor his religion.
b. the transmitter disrupts georges ability to think.
c. the transmitter allows george to listen to sounds as he works.
d. the transmitter reminds george of the tasks he has to complete.
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11 george winced. so did two out of the eight ballerinas.
12 hazel saw him wince. having no mental handicap herself, she had to ask george what the latest sound had been.
13 \sounded like somebody hitting a milk bottle with a ball peen hammer,\ said george.

Explanation:

Question 4 (Part B - Evidence Support)

To determine the evidence, we analyze each option:

• Option a: Talks about April not being springtime, irrelevant to the answer from Part A (likely about handicaps/thought control).
• Option b: Mentions taking Harrison away, not related to how the transmitter affects George.
• Option c: States the transmitter sends sharp noises to stop people like George from using their brains unfairly, which relates to controlling thought (matching the context of mental handicaps and disrupted thinking).

• Option a: No religious context in the text, eliminate.
• Option b: The text says the transmitter sends sharp noises that scatter George’s thoughts (e.g., "His thoughts fled in panic" and "scattered his thoughts"), so it disrupts his thinking.
• Option c: The transmitter is for handicapping, not for listening to sounds while working, eliminate.
• Option d: No mention of task reminders, eliminate.

Answer:

c. "Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains."

Question 5 (How Transmitter Affects George)