In Art Spiegelman’s Maus, the events of the Holocaust are relayed from the perspective of
Read the excerpt from “In Response to Executive Order 9066.”I am a fourteen-year-old girl with bad spellingand a messy room. If it helps any, I will tell youI have always felt funny using chopsticksand my favorite food is hot dogs.Read the excerpt from “Mericans.” Micaela, you may wait outside with Alfredito and Enrique. The awful grandmother says it all in Spanish, which I understand when I’m paying attention. “What?” I say, though it’s neither proper not polite.Which idea is true of the speakers in both excerpts?
Read the example sentence and study the chart of word prefixes.My father planted perennial flowers in the garden because they’ll bloom year after year.PrefixDefinitionper-throughoutpre-beforein-, un-noten-within
In “We Wear the Mask,” how does the poet use irony to reject the romantic notion of idealism?
Study the chart of definitions.WordDefinitioncondolencesexpressions of sadness for another persondolefulnessfeeling of sadnessdolorouscausing misery or sadnessindolentpainless, without effort, lazy
Read the excerpt from part one of Trifles.MRS. HALE. I’d hate to have men coming into my kitchen, snooping around and criticizing.Which word has a meaning similar to “snooping” as it is used in this excerpt?
Which sentence is written correctly?
Read the following scene from Trifles.COUNTY ATTORNEY (preoccupied). Is there a cat? (Mrs. Hale glances in a quick covert way at Mrs. Peters.)MRS. PETERS. Well, not now. They’re superstitious, you know. They leave. COUNTY ATTORNEY (to Sheriff Peters, continuing an interrupted conversation.) No sign at all of anyone having come from the outside. Their own rope. Now let’s go up again and go over it piece by piece. (They start upstairs.) It would have to have been someone who knew just the— (Mrs. Peters sits down. The two women sit there not looking at one another, but as if peering into something and at the same time holding back. When they talk now, it is the manner of feeling their way over strange ground, as if afraid of what they are saying, but as if they cannot help saying it.) How would an audio recording most likely convey the characters’ actions during this scene?
Which sentence is written correctly?
Read the excerpt from Elie Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea.Why were those trains allowed to roll unhindered into Poland? Why were the tracks leading to Birkenau never bombed? I have put these questions to American presidents and generals and to high-ranking Soviet officers. Since Moscow and Washington knew what the killers were doing in the death camps, why was nothing done at least to slow down their “production”? That not a single Allied military aircraft ever tried to destroy the rail lines converging on Auschwitz remains an outrageous enigma to me.How does Wiesel’s choice of genre prove beneficial in the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Roosevelt’s Executive Order No. 9066.Whereas the successful prosecution of the war requires every possible protection against espionage and against sabotage to national-defense material, national-defense premises, and national-defense utilities. . . . Which best describes the impact of the words “prosecution,” “espionage,” and “sabotage”?
Read the excerpt from the song, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”Once I built a tower, up to the sun, Brick, and rivet, and lime,Once I built a tower, Now it's done— Which reality of the Great Depression does the excerpt convey?
Which statement best describes the difference between the way the poets address their subjects in "The Author to Her Book" and "A Hymn to the Evening"?
Which statement describes an example of irony from chapters 22 and 23 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
How does Twain’s use of dialect in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contribute to the realist nature of the novel?
Read the excerpt from "In Response to Executive Order 9066".I am a fourteen-year-old girl with bad spellingand a messy room. If it helps any, I will tell youI have always felt funny using chopsticksand my favorite food is hot dogs.Why does Okita include this description of the speaker?
Read the sentences. Sentence 1: As I turned onto Bryce Road, I saw the Parkers’ cat crouched under a tree, hissing at something on the ground. Sentence 2: I decided to ride my skateboard to school this morning.Sentence 3: I shooed the cat away and called my older stepbrother, a veterinarian, because he would know just how to help them. Sentence 4: Approaching the cat, I noticed that a nest full of tiny birds was on the ground; it must have fallen from a branch. What is the most logical way to sequence these sentences to create a logical narrative?
Which statement best describes an effective one-on-one formal discussion?
Read the quotation from "The Author to Her Book"."I cast thee by as one unfit for light,Thy Visage was so irksome in my sight;Yet being mine own, at length affection wouldThy blemishes amend, if so I could"In this excerpt, Bradstreet uses the word Visage to express the idea that
Read the excerpt from the song, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”They used to tell me I was building a dream, And so I followed the mob—When there was earth to plow, or guns to bear I was always there—right on the job. They used to tell me I was building a dream With peace and glory ahead— Based on this excerpt and your knowledge of American history, why did the stock market crash make Americans lose confidence in business?
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