The Topic Sentence Below Is Followed by a Brainstormed List

question 42

Multiple Choice

The topic sentence below is followed by a brainstormed list of possible ideas for a paragraph. Decide which ideas support the topic sentence and should be kept and which ideas should be dropped. Select "keep" or "drop" for each idea. Topic sentence: Modern fireworks have their origins in tenth-century Chinese pyrotechnics.
Washington, D.C., has great Fourth of July fireworks.

• A) Keep
• B) Drop

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Definitions:

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

A U.S. government agency that provides deposit insurance to depositors in American commercial banks and savings institutions, up to a defined limit.

Consumer Product Safety Commission

A U.S. federal agency responsible for regulating the sale and manufacture of consumer products to ensure they do not pose any unreasonable risk of injury or death to consumers.

Legal Positivism

A theory of law that holds that laws are rules made by human beings and that there is no inherent or necessary connection between law and morality.

Natural Law

A philosophical belief that certain rights or values are inherent by virtue of human nature and can be universally understood through human reason.