Before you take this quiz, read the following paragraph and see if you can identify all of the vague words used. Then, you will have the opportunity to replace the vague language with more specific words and phrases.

In “Journey Beyond the Stars,” Sawhney talks about what's behind the glamour of Los Angeles, the side that everyone doesn’t talk about. Sawhney talks about how the poverty is widespread. Many jobs pay minimum wage and contribute to the low salary that people bring in. The population in Los Angeles is big and many people can't even get jobs. Despite these bad issues, “Los Angeles learned early on that advertising, promotion, and hype were key to its future” (Sawhney 4). This would catch the attention of people making them want to visit or move to the place, which is why it has become so overcrowded that most people can’t make it. This method of advertising or hyping things up works because sometimes people hear false things and it makes them do something. Another example of this is how “The city sold itself as a land of health, sunshine, and rehabilitation” (Sawhney 4). Los Angeles lied about its air and how it had medicinal properties so that if you were sick it would cure you. More people came as a result of this, and now the air quality has gotten bad because of so many and so much damage.