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Read the excerpt from "Lise Marie de Baissac.” In Normandy, Baissac pretended to be a refugee from Paris living in the house of a schoolmaster. There, she helped to set up more resistance groups and organize sabotage actions. Again traveling by bicycle, she maintained secret communications between groups and transported supplies. This was extremely dangerous work. Which best describes the meaning of the underlined word?

Which evidence is used in this excerpt? Choose two correct answers.

Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet . Montague : Many a morning hath he there been seen, With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew, Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs: But all so soon as the all-cheering sun Should in the furthest east begin to draw 120 The shady curtains from Aurora’s bed, Away from light steals home my heavy son, And private in his chamber pens himself, Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out, And makes himself an artificial night. 125 Black and portentous must this humour prove Unless good counsel may the cause remove. In this excerpt, Romeo’s reaction to light illustrates his

Read this excerpt from Hamlet discussed in "Behind the Curtain." Shakespeare, in particular, had an extraordinary gift for conjuring entire worlds through dialogue alone. Take the opening scene of Hamlet, for example. Two guards—strangers in the dark—exchange terse, cautious words: Barnardo: Who's there? Francisco: Nay, answer me. Stand, and unfold yourself. Barnardo: Long live the King! Francisco: Barnardo? Barnardo: He. From this brief exchange, we learn a great deal about the atmosphere: it's nighttime because the characters are having trouble seeing each other; the air is cold because at least one of the men is wearing a cloak. How can the Early Modern English expression "unfold yourself” be paraphrased to better understand its meaning?

Read the excerpt from "Dwaina Brooks.” Coupons helped cut the prices for sandwich wrapping, cookies, and mayonnaise. Dwaina's uncle got them discount lunch meats from the store where he used to work. Thursday night was bargain night at the bakery in nearby Lancaster. They drove away with six big loaves of day-old bread for 1 point 7 8 dollars "Mama, do you think anyone at the shelter will really eat day-old bread?" Dwaina asked. "We eat it," Gail replied. "If it don't kill us, it won't kill them." The baker gave them twenty free boxes, too, when he heard how they would be used. Dwaina's aunts and uncles brought over huge sacks of chips and big bottles of salad dressing. What idea is emphasized through repetition?

Read the excerpt from "Dwaina Brooks.” Then one afternoon, Dwaina talked with a young man who had been without a home for a long time. "What do you need?" she asked him. "I need a job and a permanent home," he replied. "Well, I can't give you that," she answered impatiently. "I don't have a job either. Don't you need anything else?" "Yeah. I would love a really good meal again." How is Dwaina affected by her conversation with the young man?

Read the excerpt from "Dwaina Brooks.” Dwaina's sisters, Stephanie, sixteen, and Crystal, nine, already had aprons tied around their waists. Dwaina turned on the radio, and they all formed an assembly line and dug in. Gail threw chicken into three skillets and got them all going at once. Dwaina slapped meat on open slices of bread and covered them with mayo. Crystal wrapped sandwiches and stuffed sacks. Dwaina looked on proudly as the corner of the kitchen began to fill up with sacks. It looked like a lot of meals. The author’s words evoke a sense of

Which best describes the author’s purpose in "Dwaina Brooks”?

What could Nico have done to make his oral presentation more effective?

Read the excerpt from Act III, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet . Romeo: Ha! banishment! be merciful, say ‘death;’ For exile hath more terror in his look, Much more than death: do not say ‘banishment.’ Which is the best paraphrase of this dialogue?

Read the excerpt from Act III, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet . Friar Laurence: Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man: Affliction is enamour’d of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. What is the meaning of the phrase "thou art wedded to calamity”?

Which line from President Reagan’s Address at Moscow State University is a fact?

What is the goal of the rhetorical appeal in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from The Code Book . Without much hope of a theoretical breakthrough, cryptanalysts have been forced to look for a technological innovation. If there is no obvious way to reduce the number of steps required for factoring, then cryptanalysts need a technology that will perform these steps more quickly. Silicon chips will continue to get faster as the years pass, doubling in speed roughly every eighteen months, but this is not enough to make a real impact on the speed of factoring—cryptanalysts require a technology that is billions of times faster than current computers. Consequently, cryptanalysts are looking toward a radically new form of computer, the quantum computer. If scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with such enormous speed that it would make a modern supercomputer look like a broken abacus. The author’s purpose in this paragraph is to

Read the excerpt from Outcasts United . She blew the whistle, and soon a white cloud of dust began to rise from the scuffling feet of the two sides. The Fifteens displayed a new energy and determination, and took control of the ball. On an early run, Mandela set up Muamer, the new, mustachioed Bosnian forward, with a touch pass off the back of his foot, but Muamer missed the shot. "Man!" Mandela shouted in frustration. Moments later, Peshawa slithered through the Fifteens' defenses and fired a shot that clanged into the chain-link fence of the backstop. The Seventeens were up 1–0. The Fifteens didn't give up. Soon Mandela dribbled through a seam in the Seventeens' defense, got a clear view of the goal, and fired a perfect shot: clang! The Fifteens had tied it 1–1. Luma blew the whistle for halftime. What is the effect of telling the events during the soccer game in chronological order?

Read the excerpt from My Story . More of us rode the buses than Caucasians did, because more whites could afford cars. It was very humiliating having to suffer the indignity of riding segregated buses twice a day, five days a week, to go downtown and work for white people. How is this excerpt structured?

What is emphasized by the alliteration in this excerpt?

Read the excerpt from the conclusion of the letter to the editor. We need to urge our city planners to say goodbye to the urban sprawl that has engulfed our nation like a tidal wave in the last few decades, and instead build more traditional mixed-use neighborhoods that were once the building blocks of city infrastructure in our nation. As the authors of Suburban Nation wrote: "We shape our cities and then our cities shape us. The choice is ours whether we build subdivisions that debase the human spirit or neighborhoods that nurture sociability and bring out the best in our nature.” Which rhetorical device does the letter writer use in this paragraph?

What is the central idea of the letter to the editor?

How does the author of the letter to the editor feel about urban sprawl?