Read the excerpt from Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier's Home.” In the evening he practiced on his clarinet, strolled down town, read and went to bed. He was still a hero to his two young sisters. His mother would have given him breakfast in bed if he had wanted it. She often came in when he was in bed and asked him to tell her about the war, but her attention always wandered. What important detail about Krebs’s sisters and mother is revealed?
Read the following scene from The Chaste Adventures of Joseph: A Comedy . THE LADY: Such a lovely house, Madam Potiphar!—But what is this quiet room? Your husband's study? MADAM POTIPHAR: ( coming in ) Oh, this is nothing—merely the room of one of the slaves. Come, dear Cousin Asenath, and I will show you the garden. The pomegranates are just beginning to blossom. ASENATH: The room of a slave? Indeed! He seems to be an educated person! How would a stage interpretation differ from an audio production of this scene?
Which of the following best supports the fact that The Chaste Adventures of Joseph: A Comedy is written in an experimental style?
Which piece of dialogue from The Chaste Adventures of Joseph: A Comedy most reveals Madam Potiphar’s motives for wanting her husband to replace his secretary, Joseph?
In The Chaste Adventures of Joseph: A Comedy , the garden outside the Potiphar’s home symbolizes growth and natural beauty, and it highlights the
Which excerpt from Trifles contains a stage direction?
The location of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is important because
Read the excerpt from Rena Kornreich Gelissen’s Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz . That night changed everything. It had become dangerous for me to live in Tylicz. . . . Papa deliberated long and hard over whom to contact about smuggling me across the border. Andrzej had been fighting the Germans when Poland had first been invaded, but he’d been fortunate enough to escape capture; returning secretly to Tylicz, he was now working for the Polish resistance. Who knew the border better than Andrzej?... “I have a favor to ask of you, Andrzej . . . This is very difficult for me, but I must ask. It is no longer safe in Tylicz for Rena. Her mother and I are worried for her safety every day.” What assumptions can be made about the setting described in the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz . “I have a favor to ask of you, Andrzej . . . This is very difficult for me, but I must ask. It is no longer safe in Tylicz for Rena. Her mother and I are worried for her safety every day.” “I heard what happened last night, Mr. Kornreich. I understand your concern.” “I have no money to pay you for this favor.” “Sir, I would not take any money from you. She is my friend since childhood. I will do whatever you ask to help your daughter.” “Thank you.” Papa paused, stroking his chin where his beard should have been. “You seem like a man of your word. If you would bring Rena across the border to Slovakia, her mother and I might find sleep at night.” Which sentence best summarizes the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Gelissen’s Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz . Thrown off balance, struggling to keep from falling into the abyss below, I plummeted out of reach. Rolling down the steep incline, I grabbed at tree branches to break my fall as they ripped the mittens from my hands. Biting my tongue, I splashed into a stream with no cushion but ice-covered boulders. The silence of the night shrank. Icy water crept into my clothes. Our ears pricked up for the sound of rudely woken dogs in the nearby kennels. There was the sound of water dripping off my elbows. Neither of us dared move or breathe. No dogs barked. Which best describes the impact of this excerpt that reflects Gelissen’s decision to tell her story in memoir form?
Read the excerpt. The silence of the night shrank. Icy water crept into my clothes. Our ears pricked up for the sound of rudely woken dogs in the nearby kennels. There was the sound of water dripping off my elbows. Neither of us dared move or breathe. No dogs barked. Finally, Andrzej signaled for me to stand up. Slowly, bracing my hands against the river rocks, I stood. My legs were barely able to stand my weight, they were shaking so badly with cold and fear. Which best describes the impact of Gelissen’s first-person account of her experiences in the excerpt from Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz ?
Read the excerpt. My father had never met Andrzej, yet that morning he sent for the boy he had forbidden me to see to come into our house. Not a word had been spoken to me about these arrangements. This was my father, and of course I was not consulted. I was standing in the kitchen when I heard Andrzej’s voice at our door. My knees sank. Mama scrutinized me. I did not even look at his face. “Welcome, Andrzej. Please have a seat.” Papa offered him a chair. . . . “I have a favor to ask of you, Andrzej . . . This is very difficult for me, but I must ask. It is no longer safe in Tylicz for Rena. Her mother and I are worried for her safety every day.” Determine the narrator’s point of view in Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz .
Read the excerpt from the Joint Statement by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. Sixth, after the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny, they hope to see established a peace which will afford to all nations the means of dwelling in safety within their own boundaries, and which will afford assurance that all the men in all the lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want; This statement is based on the assumption that
Read the excerpt from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms . We parked the cars beyond the brickyard. The ovens and some deep holes had been equipped as dressing stations. There were three doctors that I knew. I talked with the major and learned that when it should start and our cars should be loaded we would drive them back along the screened road and up to the main road along the ridge where there would be a post and other cars to clear them. Which best describes Hemingway’s style of writing in the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Section 2 of the Espionage Act, which was enacted by the Congress of the United States on June 15, 1917. Section 2 Whoever, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury or the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation, communicated, delivers, or transmits, or attempts to, or aids, or induces another to, communicate, deliver or transmit, to any foreign government, or to any faction or party or military or naval force within a foreign country, whether recognized or unrecognized by the United States, or to any representative, officer, agent, employee, subject, or citizen thereof, either directly or indirectly and document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blue print, plan, map, model, note, instrument, appliance, or information relating to the national defence, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than twenty years. How does this excerpt relate to the plot of the The Inheritors ?
Read the excerpt from The Inheritors . EMIL: Guess you don't know much about the Espionage Act or you'd go and make a little friendly call on your uncle. When your case comes to trial—and Judge Lenon may be on the bench—( whistles ) He's one fiend for Americanism. What best describes the effect of the word fiend in this excerpt?
Read the following scene from The Inheritors . FRED JORDAN'S cell. Slowly, at the end left unchalked, as for a door, she goes in. Her hand goes up as against a wall; looks at her other hand, sees it is out too far, brings it in, giving herself the width of the cell. Walks its length, halts, looks up .) And one window—too high up to see out. ( In the moment she stands there, she is in that cell; she is all the people who are in those cells . EMIL JOHNSON [who works at the courthouse], appears from outside. ) MADELINE: ( stepping out of the cell door, and around it ) Hello, Emil. EMIL: How are you, Madeline? How do, Mr Morton. (IRA barely nods and does not turn ... EMIL turns back to MADELINE) Well, I'm just from the courthouse. Looks like you and I might take a ride together, Madeline. You come before the Commissioner at four. A possible disadvantage to watching this scene, as opposed to reading it silently, is that viewers are
In Glaspell’s The Inheritors , which quotation best supports the feminist theme that women often feel a desire to control their own fate?
Read the excerpt from The Little Foxes . REGINA: ( to BEN, triumphantly ) Exactly. ( To HORACE) So I did a little bargaining for you and convinced my brothers they weren’t the only Hubbards who had a business sense. HORACE: Did you have to convince them of that? How little people know about each other! ( Laughs ) But you’ll know better about Regina next time, eh, Ben? (BEN, REGINA, HORACE laugh together. OSCAR’S face is angry ) Now let’s see. We’re getting a bigger share. ( Looking at OSCAR) Who’s getting less? Which of the following themes does this reinforce?
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