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Why should readers evaluate each piece of evidence when reading a literary text? Select the two correct answers. to show they have researched the historical background of the text to support their ideas about what makes a text memorable to defend their op...

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Circular and rectangular tables are set up for a banquet. Each circular table has 8 chairs and each rectangular table has ​10 chairs. Ryan claims that he used 9 tables to set up 100 chairs for the banquet. Is his claim believable? Explain.

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One night in autumn a few men were gathered about a fire on the slope of a hill. They belonged to a small detachment of Confederate forces and were awaiting orders to march. Their gray uniforms were worn beyond the point of shabbiness. One of the men was...

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In the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, how did the process of judicial review allow the Supreme Court to decide on the case? A) The ruling was found in favor of the defendant, stating that in education they are allowed to segregate. B) The...

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How is the Supreme Court able to resolve policy differences between the legislative branch and the executive branch? A) The Supreme Court may only review executive orders made by the president. B) The Supreme Court operates individually from the other bra...

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Which statement explains why the Fourteenth Amendment was included in the U.S Constitution? A) As a result of the Civil War, the Fourteenth Amendment extended civil rights and protections to women across the nation. B) As a result of the Civil War, the Fo...

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What was the constitutional basis for overturning the Virginia statute in Loving v. Virginia? A) The Supreme Court found that the ability to marry someone from another state is protected under the equal protection clause. B) The Supreme Court found that t...

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A grade school is putting on its spring show. The theater seats 120 people. Because of the demand for tickets, the school has made the following specifications: • The number of tickets for children will be twice as many as the number for adults. • Full-pr...

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The Cart by Cesar Aira A wave of joy and confidence swept through me each time I identified it. I thought of it as a kind of friend, a friendly object, perhaps because in this case the inertness of a thing had been leavened with that minimal tremor of lif...

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The Minister's Black Veil The cause of so much amazement may appear sufficiently slight. Mr. Hooper, a gentlemanly person of about thirty, though still a bachelor, was dressed with due clerical neatness, as if a careful wife had starched his band and brus...

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Feeding Paul Bunyan's crews was a complicated job. At no two camps were conditions the same. The winter he logged off North Dakota he had 300 cooks making pancakes for the Seven Axemen and the little Chore-boy. At headquarters on the Big Onion he had one...

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What do situational irony and dramatic irony have in common? A) They both are often found in the dialogue between the characters. B) They both are generally revealed through the private thoughts of a character. C) They both are told through elements of fl...

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“Please insert your card,” the parking kiosk chirped. Jihun had inserted the card three times, each time with this same result. The interview was at 11:00; it was now 10:50 and counting. It was at least a five-minute walk to the clinic, so if you really t...

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Why do authors often use transition words and phrases in narratives? A) to show that a plot structure is linear B) to let readers know when there is a change in time and place C) to make it easier to include multiple narrators D) to add complexity to the...

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What is the aesthetic impact of a poem? A) how the poem’s speaker addresses the reader B) the central message or lesson of the poem C) how the poem affects the reader’s senses D) the meter and rhyme scheme of the poem

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What is a quatrain? a group of two lines of poetry with the same rhyme scheme a type of poem with 14 lines a specific meter used in a line of poetry a group of four lines of poetry with the same rhyme scheme

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What is a structural characteristic of a litany poem? A) All stanzas have the same rhyme scheme. B) The ending must be in the form of a couplet. C) The stanzas follow a set rhyme scheme, and all lines are iambic pentameter. D) Many lines or stanzas begin...

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"The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for t...

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