How does the first paragraph of The Dark Game best support the central idea that the Civil War was a long war? (Albe
O It shares the detail that the war lasted four years.
O It states what people believed about the war at the time.
O It tells how many soldiers actually died in the war.
O. It gives an example of a battle that lasted almost two days.

Read the excerpt from "save the redwoods."another, one of the finest in the grove, more than three hundred feet high, was skinned alive to a height of one hundred and sixteen feet from the ground and the bark sent to london to show how fine and big that calaveras tree was—as sensible a scheme as skinning our great men would be to prove their greatness.which  best  describes how the excerpt appeals to readers’ emotions? the excerpt provides facts about the tree, which impresses readers’ scientific minds.the excerpt describes how the tree traveled to london, which excites the readers’ sense of adventure.the excerpt compares the tree to a person, which makes readers feel sympathetic toward the tree.the excerpt explains how to skin a tree, which makes readers feel awed at the height of the tree.

According to the article about rita doves poem what do hades and demeter have in common

Can you describe the word chalk without saying the words chalk or chalky? (type your own definition of the word.)