Comprehension questions 80 points !
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1according to the passage, congo has what percentage of the world’s supply of coltan?
10%
64%
100%
45%
2the increasing value of coltan has caused which of the following effects in congo?
violence over control of coltan resources
violence over control of diamond resources
demand for electronics
increased tension between the hutu and the tutsi
3according to the passage, it is likely that
people in congo are all wealthy
mining for coltan is easy to do
coltan is valuable
cell phones are very cheap to buy in congo
4read the following sentence:
“that’s why the abundant, highly concentrated coltan in congo is so tantalizing to technology companies.”

as used in the passage, abundant means
there is a lot of it
there is not a lot of it
dark-colored
there isn’t anything like it
5this passage is mostly about
the types of minerals found in congo
how diamonds are mined
conflict in congo due to ethnic wars
conflict in congo due to coltan mining
6why is tantalum valuable for cell phones and other electronic devices?
answer
7why does the coltan war in congo cause a dilemma for consumers buying electronic devices?
answer
8the question below is an incomplete sentence. choose the word that best completes the sentence.
tantalum prevents electrical devices from overheating, the devices getting hot.
especially
despite
however
because
9which person is most likely facing a dilemma?

10which of the following is more of a dilemma: choosing an outfit for school or taking sides when two of your friends are having an argument? why?
answer

by the way thes questions are from the readworks article called blood mineral.

Read this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich her attitude towards him and his diseases is still the same just as the doctor had adopted a certain relation to his patient which he could not abandon, so had she formed one towards him—that he was not doing something he ought to do and was himself to blame, and that she reproached him lovingly for this--and she could not now change that attitude. "you see he doesn't listen to me and doesn't take his medicine at the proper time. and above all he lies in a position that is no doubt bad for him.- with his legs up" she described how he made gerasim hold his legs up the doctor smiled with a contemptuous affability that said"what's to be done? these sick people do have foolish fancles of that kind, but we must forgive them they all rose, said good-night and went away when they had gone it seemed to ivan ilyich that he felt better, the falsity had gone with them. but the pain remained--that same pain and that same fear that made everything monotonously alike, nothing harder and nothing easier. everything was worse again minute followed minute and hour followed hour everything remained the same and there was no cessation. and the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible based on the excerpt, how is praskovya fedorovna a character foil to ivan ilyich? a. she is kind and takes care of ivan, which is why he feels guilty about how he treated her for most of their married life • b. she is vindictive toward ivan while pretending to be worried about him, thus reminding him of how his family has never forgiven him she plays the part of the worried wife without any real feeling, symbolizing the false propriety ivan upheld but now hates c. d. she is young, healthy, and beautiful-everything ivan can never be again and wishes he could return to

How can you tell that the text is from a biography

This excerpt is an example of a claim of a. fact b. policy c. value d. definition