Read the passage from a raisin in the sun. mama: father, give us strength. (knowingly—and without fun.) did he threaten us? · beneatha: oh—mama—they don't do it like that anymore. he talked brotherhood. he said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good christian fellowship, she and walter shake hands to ridicule the remark. mama (sadly): lord, protect us . . which statement best explains how word choice affects the tone of this passage? the word strength creates an optimistic tone. the word threaten creates a somber tone. the word knowingly creates a bored tone. the word protect creates a confident tone.

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)