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Lesson: Critical Reading - 07t01

Topic And Scope Practice

[Page 7 of 19]
Identify the topic and scope of each passage excerpt that appears below. Type your answers into the text boxes that follow, and then click Continue.

Excerpt 1

The theater director, the person responsible for the staging and dramatic impact of the stage performance, is a relatively recent phenomenon whose rise is parallel with the emergence of certain political and social strains new to the nineteenth century, beginning in Germany.

What is the topic?

What is the scope?


Note that the scope will shift to Germany in particular in the very next sentence; but the "beginning in…" implies that the author will leave Germany and discuss directors in other countries before he's through.

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