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Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Well, sir, the two ran into one another naturally enough at the corner; and then came the horrible part of the thing; for the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left her screaming on the ground. It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see. It wasn’t like a man; it was like some damned Juggernaut. I gave a few halloa, took to my heels, collared my gentleman, and brought him back to where there was already quite a group about the screaming child. He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running. How is Mr. Hyde characterized in the excerpt?

Read the excerpt from the climax of "The Tell-Tale Heart." "Villains!” I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed!—tear up the planks! here, here!—It is the beating of his hideous heart!” Which theme does this climax most connect with?

Read the excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart". TRUE!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story.

Read the excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart." It grew louder, I say, louder every moment!—do you mark me well I have told you that I am nervous: so I am. And now at the dead hour of the night, amid the dreadful silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror. Yet, for some minutes longer I refrained and stood still. But the beating grew louder, louder! I thought the heart must burst. And now a new anxiety seized me—the sound would be heard by a neighbour! The best way to summarize the narrator’s internal conflict is that he is

Read the excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart." It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees—very gradually—I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever. From the way the old man is characterized in the excerpt, the reader can conclude that he was

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The court was very cool and a little damp, and full of premature twilight, although the sky, high up overhead, was still bright with sunset. The middle one of the three windows was half-way open; and sitting close beside it, taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner, Utterson saw Dr. Jekyll. "What! Jekyll!” he cried. "I trust you are better.” "I am very low, Utterson,” replied the doctor drearily, "very low. It will not last long, thank God.” Which theme does this passage best support?

Which sentence best describes a difference between the two historical posters?

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Read the excerpt from Sudanese Slit Drum. This thinning would materially change the sound of the drum, evidence that although it might continue to be used for its original purpose of music-making or calling people to arms, it would now do so with a different voice. A musical instrument had become a trophy, and the new carvings were in fact branding, a statement of the north’s political dominance over Central Africa and of allegiance to Islam. MacGregor's analysis in this passage is mostly focused on

One advantage of reading Sudanese Slit Drum, rather than listening to it in a podcast, is that the reader

Read the excerpt from Sudanese Slit Drum. It is another document of the enduring geopolitical fault-line around the Nile cataracts that we have encountered twice before: in the sphinx of Taharqo (Chapter 22) and the head of Augustus (Chapter 35). This drum is part of the history of indigenous African culture, of the East African slave trade centred on Khartoum, and of the European scramble for Africa at the end of the nineteenth century. Since the passage shows how MacGregor perceives and discusses the topic of the Sudanese slit drum, it is an example of a

Read the passage from "Christabel." No doubt, she hath a vision sweet. What if her guardian spirit 'twere, What if she knew her mother near? But this she knows, in joys and woes, That saints will aid if men will call: For the blue sky bends over all! Which line from the passage best summarizes the theme of the passage?

Read the passage from "Christabel." It was a lovely sight to see The lady Christabel, when she Was praying at the old oak tree. Amid the jaggéd shadows Of mossy leafless boughs, Kneeling in the moonlight, To make her gentle vows; Her slender palms together prest, Heaving sometimes on her breast; Her face resigned to bliss or bale— Her face, oh call it fair not pale, And both blue eyes more bright than clear, Each about to have a tear. Which lines contain diction that creates the overall tone? Choose three correct answers.

Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . . . . and the next moment, I had sprung to my feet and leaped back against the wall, my arms raised to shield me from that prodigy, my mind submerged in terror. "O God!" I screamed, and "O God!" again and again; for there before my eyes—pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death—there stood Henry Jekyll! This part of Lanyon’s letter helps the reader understand that

Read the excerpt from "Digging." My father, digging. I look down Which statement best describes the effect of the alliteration in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from "Digging." The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft Against the inside knee was levered firmly. Which idea is typically associated with the word "coarse”?

The topic of the personal statement can best be described as the

Read the lines from "Song VII" by Rabindranath Tagore. My poet’s vanity dies in shame before thy sight. O master poet, I have sat down at thy feet. Which words show that the lyric poem is written from the perspective of a single speaker?

Read the excerpt from Suffragists' "Great Demand" Banner. In June 1917, the District of Columbia police began arresting picketers for obstructing sidewalk traffic. The women would be sentenced to serve in the Occoquan Workhouse Prison in Lorton, Virginia. In August, scuffles broke out at the gates of the White House as angry spectators assaulted suffragists while city police stood by. The picketing continued. On October 20, Alice Paul was arrested and sentenced to seven months in jail. She and her companions were held in solitary confinement and denied counsel. Paul went on a hunger strike and was violently force-fed. Authorities confined her to a psychiatric ward in an effort to discredit her. On November 14, thirty women in the Workhouse Prison were beaten, threatened, and mistreated in what came to be known as the Night of Terror. Chronological structure is used in this passage to

Read the passage from "The Tiger.” Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? The author uses imagery to help the reader