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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.

Read the excerpt from Early Victorian Tea Set.Among the upper classes, tea had been popular since before 1700. It received celebrity endorsement from Charles II’s queen, Catherine of Braganza, and from Queen Anne. It came from China, it was expensive, refreshingly bitter and drunk in tiny cups without milk or sugar. People kept their tea in locked tea caddies, as if it were a drug; for those who could afford it, it often was. In the 1750s Samuel Johnson confessed himself a happy addict:A hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant, whose kettle scarcely has time to cool, who with Tea amuses the evening, with Tea solaces the midnights, and with Tea welcomes the morning.

Look at the picture of John Harrison painted by artist Philippe Joseph Tassaert.

Which details are evident in both the excerpt and the image? Select 3 options.

Which sentence best establishes visual details?

When do listeners benefit from listening? Select three options.when the narrator emphasizes key wordswhen they analyze text features on their ownwhen the narrator pauses for effectwhen they reread text for claritywhen sound effects are used

Which types of evidence best support a claim in argumentative writing? Check all that apply.examplesquotationsopinionsstatisticsfeelings

Read the sentence.Head toward the large yellow sign to find the lemon grove.Which word is a preposition?

Read the excerpt from Suffragists' "Great Demand" Banner.American suffrage bannerThe Smithsonian’s Great Demand banner, as it came to be called, declares in bold words and style the determination of the women who made and carried it. Their campaign on behalf of women sought to move America one step closer to fulfilling the nation’s long-deferred promise of equality under the law.Now read the excerpt from A History of the World in 100 Objects.As a campaigning strategy it was a stroke of genius. The artist Felicity Powell has a special interest in subversive medals:The idea is incredibly clever, because it uses the potential that coinage has, a bit like the internet today, to be widely circulated.

Which sentence contains a split infinitive?

What type of context clue offers information about the function, features, or appearance of an unfamiliar word?

Read the excerpt from "Hokusai's The Great Wave.”So The Great Wave, far from being the quintessence of Japan, is a hybrid work, a fusion of European materials and conventions with a Japanese sensibility. No wonder this image has been so loved in Europe: it is an exotic relative, not a complete stranger.It also, I think, shows a peculiarly Japanese ambivalence. As a viewer, you have no place to stand, no footing. You too must be in a boat, under the Great Wave, and in danger. The dangerous sea over which European things and ideas travelled has, however, been drawn with a profound ambiguity.

Which statements about this excerpt are correct? Check all that apply.

Read the excerpt from A History of the World in 100 Objects. Power is usually not willingly given, but forcefully taken; and in both Europe and America the nineteenth century was punctuated by political protest, with periodic revolutions on the continent, the Civil War in America and, in Britain, a steady struggle to widen the suffrage.

Which elements maintain a formal style and tone in writing? Check all that apply.charged languagevaried sentence typesacademic languageshort, choppy sentencesobjective language

What type of context clue offers a word with the same meaning as an unfamiliar word?

Read the claim and the reason that follows it.Claim: The Sudanese slit drum was the most historically significant object because it represented the end of the slave trade.Reason: Defeating Khartoum was a step toward ending the slave trade, so when the drum was found in Khartoum, it was re-branded and presented to Queen Victoria as a token of victory.

Read the excerpt from "Hokusai's The Great Wave.”Hokusai has taken more than colour from the West – he has also borrowed the conventions of European perspective to push Mount Fuji far into the distance. It is clear that Hokusai must have studied European prints, which the Dutch had imported into Japan and which circulated among artists and collectors. So The Great Wave, far from being the quintessence of Japan, is a hybrid work, a fusion of European materials and conventions with a Japanese sensibility. No wonder this image has been so loved in Europe: it is an exotic relative, not a complete stranger.

Look at the images.

Read the excerpt from Suffragists' "Great Demand" Banner.From colonial times to the American independence movement and the writing of the U.S. Constitution, voting rights had been restricted. Each colony had made its own rules about who could vote, and this practice continued once they became states. Requirements generally called for a certain age of maturity, generally twenty-one, and ownership of property, among other qualifications. Younger adults, Indians, African Americans, and women were typically disqualified from voting. While there were stirrings for the right of women to vote in the early nineteenth century, the cause took on a new seriousness with the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.