Read the scenario below and answer the question that follows. hope knew how desperate hayley was to make it on the baseball team. hope had seen hayley's grandparents cheering at the game last year. they just looked so happy. the baseball team was the only thing that was going well in hayley's life. yet, hope knew that she was a better player than hayley. after baseball camp, there was really no competition. what was hope to do? here she was at tryouts, and it was too late to drop out. there was one more spot on the team. she believed strongly that she should always do her best, but she didn't want to break hayley's heart. which statement describes the main plot of the scenario above best? hope has an external conflict due to competition with hayley. hope has an internal conflict due to a moral dilemma. hope has an internal conflict due to her negative feelings toward hayley. hope has an external conflict due to her missing baseball camp.

Hope has an internal conflict due to a moral dilemma.

Explanation:

In this story, Hope has an internal conflict due to a moral dilemma. An internal conflict is a problem that a character has between two opposing ideas or feelings within her. In this case, the character is torn because she wants to do her best and join the team, but she also wants Hayley to be able to defeat her and take the spot. This is a moral dilemma, as both outcomes have negative characteristics in different ways.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.