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Who risks sacrificing their life with Harrison?

• The musician
• The news broadcaster
• The audience
• The ballerina

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Whom did Holden meet at the sandwich bar? What did they talk about?

• He met Sunny. They talked about what had happened the night before.
• He met two nuns. They talked about literature and Holden's views on Romeo and Juliet.
• He met Stradlater. They talked about school and Holden's personal problems.
• He met Ernie, the piano player. They talked about Holden's brother.

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How does Brutus feel about Caesar as the play begins?

• he desperately wants his approval
• he strongly dislikes him
• he hopes he becomes king
• he likes him but fears he's not right to lead Rome

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What terrible thing does Iago do to Cassio during the celebration to ruin his reputation?

• He makes it seem like he is having an affair with Desdemona.
• He gets him drunk so that he will start a fight
• He turns Cassio against Othello

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Indirect Characterization is...

• the author showing you a character's traits
• the author telling you a character's traits

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Read this passage. Here, the narrator explains how she began reacting to her mother's quizzes.
I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won'ts.  I won't let her change me, I promised myself.  I won't be what I'm not!
So now on nights when my mother presented her tests, I performed listlessly, my head propped on one arm.  I pretended to be bored.
Which sentence best explains what drives or motivates, the narrator to act bored?

• She feels like a failure when she doesn't know the answers to the tests
• She realizes that learning piano is more interesting than taking tests.
• She decides that she will not be pushed into becoming a prodigy.
• She believes that the tests represent her mother's anger at her.

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Jem touched the Radley place because

• to show that Jem was not scared of the Radley place
• to show Scout there is nothing scary about the Radley Place
• to overcome his fear
• Dill dared him to.

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When Curley’s wife refuses to leave, Crooks threatens to tell the Boss where she’s been and “ast the boss not to ever let you come in the barn no more” (80). Which answer best summarizes her reaction?

• She calls him a vile name and threatens to get him hanged.

• She runs away from the ranch.

• She meekly backs out of the harness room and returns to the house.

• She cries to her father-in-law that the men don’t treat her kindly.

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Why does grandmother write plays for Bruno and Gretel to perform?

• Grandmother wants them to be better at public speaking.

• Grandmother hopes they will "follow her on stage".

• Grandmother wants to share her talents with them.

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Napoleon, the tough and shrewd leader of the farm, represents which real leader from history

• Roosevelt

• Hitler

• Stalin

• Trotsky

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