Which of these sentences least supports the main idea of this passage? a. "one town held a prayer service, and their prayers were answered with 0.03 inches of rain." b. "the cattle business was especially hard hit with losses of more than $4 billion." c. "most rivers hardly had enough flow to keep a person afloat in 2009." d. "inside the state capital in austin, air conditioning kept things cool."

Which type of novel is characterized by complex characters, often with mixed motives, rooted in a highly developed social structure? a. gothic b. realistic c. psychological d. historical

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

1according to the passage, carol-ann normandin had all of the following symptoms except