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Which excerpt from Early Victorian Tea Set best expresses MacGregor’s viewpoint about tea?

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Read the excerpt from Ship's Chronometer from HMS Beagle.Before long the whole of Britain was running by the clock, and the measurement of time had been severed from the natural cycle of days and seasons. The clock ruled every aspect of life — shops and schools, pleasure and work. As Charles Dickens wrote, ‘There was even railway time observed in clocks, as if the sun itself had given in.’ Nigel Thrift explains:The chronometer, an exceptionally accurate clock, meant that gradually an ever more accurate measure of time became possible, and that of course worked through other things in the nineteenth century to produce ever more standardized time. A good example of that is the railway, where standard time based on the meridian was first applied by the Great Western Railway in 1840 and gradually that standard time became general.

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Read the excerpt from Early Victorian Tea Set.In the eighteenth century Josiah Wedgwood had made some of the most expensive stoneware ceramics – in jasper and basalt – in Britain, but this tea set shows that by the 1840s, when Wedgwood produced it, the company was aiming at a much wider market. This is quite clearly mid-range pottery, simple earthenware of a sort that many quite modest British households were then able to afford. But the owners of this particular set must have had serious social aspirations, because all three pieces have been decorated with a drape of lacy hallmarked silver.

Which detail in the passage most clearly identifies the text as fantasy?

What does the reader learn about Bag End, Bilbo’s house, from the passage? Check all that apply.

Which quotation from The Fellowship of the Ring is an example of indirect characterization?

How is Bilbo Baggins characterized in this passage?

Which quotation from The Fellowship of the Ring is an example of direct characterization?

How is Frodo characterized in the passage?

Which statement best explains how the passage helps Tolkien build a vivid fantasy world?

Which statement best describes the effect of the alliteration in the passage?

What ideas or topics are typically associated with the word gun?

Which phrase in the passage uses alliteration?

Which statement best explains the effect of the word clean in this passage?

Which words in the passage are linked by assonance?

Read the excerpt from "Digging."The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft Against the inside knee was levered firmly.