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In The Inheritors, how does Madeline react to Emil’s advice that she apologize to her uncle and ask him for help?

A
She agrees to speak to her uncle soon.
B
She admits that she despises her uncle.
C
She implies that he is not really her uncle.
D
She refuses to approach her uncle in any way.
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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

A
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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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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How is Glaspell most successful at depicting a contrast between a traditional woman and a modern woman in The Inheritors?

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through her comparisons between Madeline as a child and Madeline as an adult
B
through the conversations that Madeline shares with both her father and Emil, a courthouse employee
C
through the foolish acts that Madeline undertakes as she attempts to take a stand
D
through the idle musings of Madeline as she considers what steps she should take
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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?

A
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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