Read the excerpt from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. "And now, dear Margaret, do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose? My life might have been passed in ease and luxury, but I
preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path. Oh, that some encouraging voice would answer in the affirmativel My
courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed. I am about to proceed on a long and difficult
voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude: I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to
sustain my own, when theirs are failing."
Which choice best summarizes the excerpt?
A. The narrator tells Margaret that despite living a life of luxury, he still prefers this difficult voyage. But he needs encouragement because he must keep others encouraged as well as himself.
B. The narrator tells Margaret that he goes back and forth between hope and depression, and there may be a lot of emergencies
to deal with. Therefore, he needs some encouragement from her.
C. The narrator informs Margaret that he made the better choice to travel rather than to stay at home in comfort. But the crew is
very depressed, which is making him also very depressed.
D. The narrator complains to Margaret that his choice to travel means he no longer lives a life of comfort. Moreover, he must also
keep everyone else's spirits up along with his own.

Read the passage, then answer the question that follows. no one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. it was a hint—just a glimpse, like a twist that comes about two thirds of the way through a movie—that the end of the age of sugar was in sight. for beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the age of science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips. in 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. by 1899 the percentage had risen to about 65 percent. and beet sugar was just the first challenge to cane. by 1879 chemists discovered saccharine—a laboratory-created substance that is several hundred times sweeter than natural sugar. today the sweeteners used in the foods you eat may come from corn (high-fructose corn syrup), from fruit (fructose), or directly from the lab (for example, aspartame, invented in 1965, or sucralose—splenda—created in 1976). brazil is the land that imported more africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. cane grows in brazil today, but not always for sugar. instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in america now convert their harvest into fuel. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how does this passage support the claim that sugar was tied to the struggle for freedom? it shows that the invention of beet sugar created competition for cane sugar. it shows that technology had a role in changing how we sweeten our foods. it shows that the beet sugar trade provided jobs for formerly enslaved workers. it shows that sweeteners did not need to be the product of sugar plantations and slavery.