Why does the author think Question 23 should be removed from the federal student aid form?

A. The question affects more people of color and discourages people from applying.
B. Disclosing criminal history on the form automatically means you won’t get aid.
C. People with a criminal background get less aid than other applicants.
D. The question doesn’t allow applicants to explain the nature of their crime.

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

Our coach’s idea of food for the entire wrestling team was tiny sandwiches and fruit.

Which describes the effect the use of figurative language has on the tone of this excerpt? select all that apply