1. Answer True or False. The following passage contains an argument: If public education fails to improve the quality of its primary and secondary schools it will lose additional students to private sector education in the years ahead.

2. Answer True or False. The following passage contains an argument: The Swiss Alps contain a number of very high peaks. They also provide a romantic backdrop for weddings.

3. Answer True or False. The following passage contains an argument: I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free people -- who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities and outside pressures -- to work out their own national destinies in their own ways. I believe that the best way we can do this is by providing these contries with economic aid. Thus, we should we should provide these contries with such aid."

4. Answer True or False. The following passage contains an argument. Mexican workers at a recently opened Ford Motor Co. assembly plant in Hermosillo went on strike, demanding a 70 percent pay raise. The 1400 workers, who are non-union and the lowest paid at the plant, earn the peso equivalent of $105 to $116 a month. Mexico's minimum wage is about $91 a month. (MSNBC.com)