Read the following passage from a humanities textbook. Answer the questions that follow.

Hebrews, Israelites, and Jews

    ¹The people who wrote and collected the books of the Old Testament, the offspring of the Patriarchs, are known variously as Hebrews, Israelites, and Jews. ²They began as an identifiable group around 1200 B. C. E., and they described themselves as both a religious and a national entity. ³The word Hebrew, as we note momentarily, refers to Abraham's ethnic group.
    ⁴Eventually Abraham's descendents came to be called Israel (after Abraham's grandson). ⁵Around 922 B. C. E., the kingdom of Israel divided and the Northern Kingdom was destroyed. ⁶When Babylon destroyed the surviving Southern Kingdom, Judah (named for its major tribe), in 587 B. C.E., the people of the nation of Judah were taken into captivity in Babylon. ⁷Later, the expression of Israelite religion became known as Judaism, from which came the words Jew and Jewish, meaning followers of Judaism and/or members of the ethnic group from which Judaism originated.
    ⁸The ancestors of Israel were semi-nomadic peoples from Mesopotamia. ⁹The Israelites traced their history back to a patriarch named Abram (later Abraham) who lived in "Ur of the Chaldees" in the second millennium B. C. E.
    ¹⁰According to biblical tradition (Genesis/Exodus), Abram took his wife and household from the heathen environment of Haran and traveled to Canaan. ¹¹Canaan held a particular spiritual appeal to Abram, because he believed that the land there was suitable for the fulfillment of a destiny to which he had been appointed by God. ¹²Canaan (KAY-nuhn) was a secluded hill country, which made it possible for Abram and his people to practice their religion in relative peace and isolation. ¹³On the other hand, Canaan lay quite close to important trade routes of the ancient world and was thus in a good position for spreading the new religion. ¹⁴Because they came from the other side of the Euphrates (yoo-FRAY-teez), Abram and his family were known as Hebrews, from a word meaning "the other side." ¹⁵Abram had a son, Isaac, through whose line of descent God's promises were seen to continue. ¹⁶As a boy, Isaac was nearly sacrificed by Abram at God's command (Genesis, chapter 22).

—Sporre, The Creative Impulse, 6th ed., pp. 144–45

		1. The tone of the first paragraph (sentences 1 through 3) is     a. informal.   b. academic.
		2. The tone of sentence 9 is     a. factual.   b. poetic.
		3. The tone of sentence 10 is     a. objective.   b. subjective.
		4. The purpose of the information stated in sentence 16 is     a. to inform the reader about Abram's level of devotion and obedience to God.   b. to persuade the reader that Abram's God is a cruel God who required a human sacrifice.   c. to entertain the reader with a vivid detail about Abram and his relationship with his God.
		5. The overall purpose of this passage is     a. to explain the origin of the Hebrews, Israelites, and Jews.   b. to persuade the reader to acknowledge the importance of Hebrews, Israelites, and Jews.   c. to entertain the reader with mythical details about culture of the Hebrews, Israelites, and Jews.