Chapter 3: Mastery Test 7
 
Read the following passage. Then, using the glossary and the context of the sentences, answer the questions that follow it.

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      Read each sentence, and decide if the statement that follows it is true or false.

1. Two days later, a letter laden with anthrax was on its way to the mail processing station where Joe Jr., 47, worked in a special unit handling government mail. (sentence 3)

The letter was full of anthrax.  

 
 


      2. "We live in a dangerous world, and those cowards who did this will have a lot to answer for one day," Curseen Sr. said, standing before his son's cozy suburban home. (sentence 5)

Curseen's son lived in the city.  

 
 


      3. Morris had neither anger toward bioterrorists nor bitterness toward government agencies. (sentence 10)

Morris has forgiven the bioterrorists for killing her husband.  

 
 


      4. She radiated joy at the thought of her husband. (sentence 12)

This woman was happily married.  

 
 


      5. For Morris, secretary at her Baptist church, the only response to terrorism is faith and a humble recognition that all are sinners without distinction. (sentence 15)

Some sinners are worse than others.  

 
 







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