Read this example. Martin is assigned an argumentative essay. The prompt says, "Write an argumentative essay that takes a position
on whether students should have to pass a test to graduate from high school."
Martin develops this claim: "If students have passed all their classes and tests in those classes, it is not fair to make
them also pass a test to graduate from high school."
Which answer choice best describes Martin's claim?
Martin's claim does not take a position
Martin's claim is based more on emotion than reasoning.
Martin's claim does not respond to the prompt.
Martin's claim is good because it appropriately responds to the prompt.

The courage that my mother had went with her, and is with her still: rock from new england quarried; now granite in a granite hill. the golden brooch my mother wore she left behind for me to wear; i have no thing i treasure more: yet, it is something i could spare. oh, if instead she'd left to me the thing she took into the grave! - that courage like a rock, which she has no more need of, and i have. based on the 2nd stanza, how does the speaker feel about the golden brooch that was passed down from the mother to child? question 2 options: a: the speaker thinks it was a waste of money b: the speaker places a high value on the item c: the speaker never wears the brooch d: the speaker feels it could be easily replaced