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In The Chaste Adventures of Joseph: A Comedy, the garden outside the Potiphar’s home symbolizes growth and natural beauty, and it highlights the

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tense and rigid atmosphere inside the Potiphar’s home.
B
carefree and playful atmosphere inside the Potiphar’s home.
C
rage that Mrs. Potiphar feels toward Asenath.
D
warm and kind feelings that Asenath has for Joseph.
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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?

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It establishes the time period in which the story occurred by using language that is not typically used in today’s society.
B
It develops the conflict by establishing the fact that Judge Lenon is unforgiving when he feels that someone has been unpatriotic.
C
It enhances the theme of the story by suggesting that it is nearly impossible to receive a fair trial during this time period.
D
It characterizes Judge Lenon as a corrupt judge who does not care to serve justice.
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In Glaspell’s The Inheritors, which quotation most supports the feminist theme that women often feel a desire to control their own fate?

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MADELINE: He got this letter out to me—written on this scrap of paper. . . . He's in what they call 'the hold', father—a punishment cell.
B
MADELINE: I do like good times. So does Fred Jordan like good times.
C
MADELINE: I do know what it means, but it means not being a coward.
D
MADELINE: I think I'm an American. And for that reason I think I have something to say about America.
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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

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required to conceptualize the setting of the jailhouse.
B
required to interpret movements in absence of stage directions.
C
required to imagine the appearance of the characters.
D
required to visualize the props used within the scene.
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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 2Whoever, 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?

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It creates a shift in the mood, which was initially lighthearted, to one that is somber and tense.
B
It characterizes Emil, who is the first to mention the act, as one who exaggerates and worries unnecessarily.
C
It establishes the setting by referring to acts of espionage that were only committed during certain periods in history.
D
It strengthens the conflict by revealing the severity of the punishments that one convicted of spying will face.

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