The central idea of this selection is that the violent outcome of what began as a peaceful anti-war protest… 

Answer: Increased tensions on U.S. college campuses and raised important questions about the right to protest…

In this selection, President Richard Nixon could best be described as a…

 Answer: Political flip-flopper…

Tear gas is sometimes used during protests in the United States despite it being banned from international use in 1997. This is done for which two of the following reasons?…

Answer 1: The effects of tear gas are temporarily unpleasant but don’t usually cause lasting health problems…  

Answer 2: A more effective chemical agent for crowd control is yet to be developed…

What most likely would have happened if students knew the guard members’ rifles contained live ammunition?…

  

 Answer: The students might have dispersed or at least not confronted the guardsmen returning to the Commons…

Put the following events from the selection in the order in which they occurred in history…  

Answer 1: President Nixon expanded U.S. military presence in Cambodia… 

Answer 2: The Ohio National Guard was sent to Kent State University…  

Answer 3: Hundreds of students gathered at the Kent State Commons…  

Anwers 4: Shots fired by the Ohio National Guard rang out on the Kent State campus…

Read this excerpt from the text. In the author’s descriptions of the early interactions between student protestors and the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970, it seems likely that… 

 Answer: Both parties misread the other’s actions…

The items in this image relate to this selection in which one of the following ways?… 

 

Answer: Allison Krause said flowers were better than bullets…

In this excerpt from the selection, the students are depicted as… 

Answer: Defiant yet mainly law-abiding, while the National Guard is presented as severe & aggressive…

In this quote from the selection, the word “blanks” most closely means…

  

Answer: Gun cartridges that contain no bullets but generate explosive sounds…

For which likely reason did the author include this excerpt in the selection?… 

Answer: To illustrate the uncertainties that lie at the heart of an important and tragic historic event…