3. How does the author's comparison of the teenage brain to driving a car contribute to the
central idea of the text?
A. It stresses how complicated the inner workings of the brain is during
adolescence.
B. It explains why teenagers have less control than adults do over their actions and
decisions.
C. It suggests that teenagers have too much power for their own good and are
liable to hurt someone.
D. It emphasizes how simple the brain is at this time, as there is only a gas and a
brake pedal.
4.
How does the list (Paragraphs 11-18) help us understand why teenagers might commit
crimes?
A. It describes teenagers' reactive and short-sited nature that could result in them
making poor decisions.
B. It emphasizes how angry teenagers are and how they are constantly looking for
an excuse to lash out at someone.
It shows how self-absorbed teenagers are and their refusal to think about doing
right by anyone but themselves.
D. It describes teenagers' self-conscious nature and their willingness to prove
themselves to others through criminal acts.
5

Amy tried to write her essay but she was distracted by the phone ring the sentence above combines a. an independent clayse and a dependent clause b. two independent clauses c. a dependent clause d. none if the above

Which of these can an adverbial clause modify?

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification