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Which detail from "Lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." best supports the theme that positive change often comes when people work together?

A
"While other people talked about change, Dr. King used direct action to challenge the system."
B
"The enemies of justice want you to think of Dr. King as only a civil rights leader, but he had a much broader agent."
C
"Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and consumers alike."
D
"We have witnessed truckloads of grapes being dumped because no one would stop to buy them."
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Read this paragraph from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.Well, three or four months run along, and it was well into the winter now. I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway.What is the author’s purpose for including this paragraph?

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to inform readers about one-room school houses
B
to inform readers about mathematics instruction
C
to persuade readers to stay in school to master basic skills
D
to entertain readers with a story of a disinterested student
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Read this excerpt from a poem.He curls on the couchThe light is low.No voices beckon him awayDemands diminish.Contentment sidles up beside himAnd he exhales.Which line contains personification?

A
He curls on the couch
B
No voices beckon him away
C
Contentment sidles up beside him
D
And he exhales.

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