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Read the passage and study the image from Sugar Changed the World.The owner of a sugar plantation built a home—called the Great House—usually high on a hill, where the tropical breezes blow. The open windows provided a kind of air conditioning, making even the hottest days more pleasant. These grand homes, with their high, cool rooms, their polished mahogany furniture, and their servants flitting between the main house and the separate cooking building, were meant to command attention, to show p

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The text describes the purpose of a Great House, but the illustration shows only the enslaved people’s quarters.
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The text describes the enslaved people’s quarters of a Great House, but the illustration shows only the Great House.
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The illustration shows what a Great House looked like from the outside, while the text explains what a Great House looked like from the inside.
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The illustration shows an empty Great House, while the text explains that wealthy plantation owners lived mostly in their European residences.
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Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.The seeds for this system were sown in 1823 in the sugar colony of British Guiana—now Guyana—where John Gladstone, father of the future British prime minister William Gladstone, owned over a thousand slaves. John Smith, a young and idealistic English preacher who had recently come to the area, was becoming popular with those slaves. His inspiring sermons retold the story of Moses leading the Jews out of Egypt and to freedom. The sugar workers listene

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anecdotal, because it tells a narrative about enslaved people taking action for basic human rights.
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logical, because it tells why enslaved people were justified in using violence to gain freedom.
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empirical, because it provides research to show that enslaved people’s actions were effective.
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logical, because it provides facts to support the conclusion that violence was the best option.
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The men oppose Boadicea without realizing how tough she is.
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The men are rude to Boadicea's daughters.
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The men's cruel attitude at home makes them misjudge Boadicea.
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The Romans are clever but sometimes do stupid things.
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The men are cruel and wicked as well as rude.
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“need guts”
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“outside the school gates”
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“group of Hidaya students”
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“so exposed”
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“no way I had the courage”
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They both show the main character sacrificing her life for her principles.
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They both show the main character breaking rules to follow her own moral code.
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They both show the main character experiencing a downfall and awaiting death.
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They both show moments in the main characters' experiences that evoke pity.
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They both show the main character revealing wisdom to people around her.
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Read the passage from Animal Farm."Boxer!" cried Clover in a terrible voice. "Boxer! Get out! Get out quickly! They're taking you to your death!"All the animals took up the cry of "Get out, Boxer, get out!" But the van was already gathering speed and drawing away from them. It was uncertain whether Boxer had understood what Clover had said. But a moment later his face disappeared from the window and there was the sound of a tremendous drumming of hoofs inside the van. He was trying to kick his w

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It is important to recognize a dictatorship before it is too late.
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Maintaining physical strength is imperative in a dictatorship.
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Being a leader means making difficult decisions.
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There is nothing anyone can do to stop a dictator.
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Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.No one interviewed the Africans who labored in the sugar fields to ask them about their hard labor. They were meant to work and die. But there is one way we can hear them. The Africans invented music, dances, and songs that carry on the pulse, the beat, of their lives. (To hear examples of music from the sugar lands, go to www.sugarchangedtheworld.com.) In Puerto Rico, bomba is a form of music and dance that the sugar workers invented. It is a kind o

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"Bomba is a form of music and dance that the sugar workers invented."
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"They were not just labor, not just bodies born to work and die."
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"Similarly, in Brazil there is a dance called Maculelê."
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"People spin, jump, and seem to menace each other."
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Why is it helpful to examine the tone of a sonnet?

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Determining how the poet feels about the subject of the sonnet is the main purpose of interpretation.
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Identifying the tonal patterns of rhyme and rhythm in a sonnet enables readers to correctly interpret it.
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Determining the speaker's attitude toward the topic of a sonnet is essential to an accurate interpretation.
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Identifying the emotional impact the sonnet has on the reader or listener allows readers to interpret it accurately.
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gazed at
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blinked at
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glared at
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glanced at
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“‘Come and look out of the window,’ she added.“The child moved reluctantly to the window. ‘Why are those sheep being driven out of that field?’ he asked.”
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“‘Oh, look at those cows!’ exclaimed the aunt. Nearly every field along the line had contained cows or bullocks, but she spoke as though she were drawing attention to a rarity.”
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“The smaller girl made no actual comment on the story, but she had long ago recommenced a murmured repetition of her favourite line.”
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“The storyteller paused to let a full idea of the park’s treasures sink into the children’s imaginations; then he resumed.”
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“‘The story began badly,’ said the smaller of the small girls, ‘but it had a beautiful ending.’“‘It is the most beautiful story that I ever heard,’ said the bigger of the small girls, with immense decision.“‘It is the only beautiful story I have ever heard,’ said Cyril.”
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In Animal Farm, what does Squealer say will happen if the animals continue to have Sunday morning debates?

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Napoleon will make the animals work harder.
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Mr. Jones will come back to rule the farm.
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The animals will have to build a windmill.
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Snowball will return and make bad decisions.
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Read the passage from chapter 2 of Animal Farm.The pigs had an even harder struggle to counteract the lies put about by Moses, the tame raven. Moses, who was Mr. Jones's especial pet, was a spy and a tale-bearer, but he was also a clever talker. He claimed to know of the existence of a mysterious country called Sugarcandy Mountain, to which all animals went when they died. It was situated somewhere up in the sky, a little distance beyond the clouds, Moses said. In Sugarcandy Mountain it was Sund

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Moses and his stories will complicate the pigs’ control over the other animals.
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The pigs will adopt Moses’s ideas and promote them on Animal Farm.
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Moses will die and end up on Sugarcandy Mountain, thus proving its existence.
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The animals will demand that Moses leave the farm and will force him out.
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After the high point of a story, what includes the resolution of the conflict?

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the rising action
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the exposition
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the falling action
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the conclusion
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Read the writing prompt.Drones are becoming a bigger part of everyday life. The rules and regulations for using drones are not yet fully established. Write a research-based essay discussing the many uses of drones, the potential future uses of drones, and the laws that are being discussed to regulate their use.

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Why does nobody know how to regulate drones or to create laws about their everyday use?
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How are drones currently used, and how will drone technology and legislation affect their future?
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How has drone technology changed, and how will the future be changed by drones and by those who govern their usage?
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How are drones used in the United States by middle-class families, and what drone-specific laws are legislatures currently discussing?
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Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.In the Age of Honey, people tasted the neighborhood where they lived. From a light orange-blossom flavor that is almost a perfume to dark buckwheat with a hint of soil and grain, honey tastes like local flowers. And that was only part of its appeal. Bees work very hard, and it is easy to see that a queen bee is surrounded by worker bees that protect and serve her. To the ancients, a beehive was perfect, for it brought a gift of sweetness to people wh

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to persuade readers that honey can be made in all neighborhoods
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to inform readers about the cultural and historical significance of honey
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to inform readers that honey is made primarily from orange blossoms
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to entertain readers about how the worker bee produces honey
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Read the passage from Sugar Changed the World.The end of slavery was a great step for human rights. But what did it mean on the sugar plantations—which had depended on extremely cheap labor to keep up with the twenty-four-hour cycle from harvest to mill? In 1836, the same John Gladstone whose sugar estate had exhibited the chained body of the slave leader Quamina wrote to a shipping company. Gladstone asked it to provide a hundred workers (the slang name was "coolies") from India to labor on his

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The sugar plantations depended on cheap labor.
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The sugar plantations had a 24-hour cycle.
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Gladstone asked the shipping company to provide workers.
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Gladstone exhibited the chained body of Quamina.

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