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Type: Multiple-Choice
Category: Author's Purpose
Level: Grade 7
Standards: CCRA.R.6, RI.7.6
Score: 9
Tags: ELA-Literacy.RI.7.6
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Grade 7 Author's Purpose CCSS: CCRA.R.6, RI.7.6

Read the descriptions of each item and determine the author's purpose in writing it (to entertain, persuade, or inform).

1. The story of a young athlete who takes steroids and his life and future fall apart.

2. A medical report describing the effects of steroids on the human body.
  1. entertain, persuade
  2. persuade, inform
  3. entertain, inform
  4. inform, entertain