Read this excerpt from "The Big Shot." Instead, the mind sees things based on how the person feels at that moment. She has been testing this by asking athletes their impressions of key activities in their sports.

In her most recent test, she asked golfers who had just finished playing to find on a chart a black circle that was the same size as a cup on the green. She says, “What we found was that the golfers who scored better selected larger circles,” adding that this suggests “that they perceive the hole as bigger.” Golfers who didn’t score as well chose smaller circles.

Which question would Jessica Witt most likely ask basketball players?

How was the mood of the team at the beginning of the game?
Who chose the plays and strategies that were used today?
Which ring looks like the hoop while standing at the free-throw line?
How fast did players on the other team run up and down the court?

Samuel johnson believed that literature should appeal mainly to the scholar, to him the common man, to teach him the common man, to teach and him the king and the parliament

Read this inference: "one day the neighbors will move out of the little frame house." what detail from the story best supports this inference?

Julius caesar. [brutus.] with this, she fell distraught, and, her attendants absent, swallowed fire. cassius. and died so? brutus. even so. cassius. o ye immortal gods! [enter lucius, with wine and taper] brutus. speak no more of her. give me a bowl of wine. in this i bury all unkindness, cassius. cassius. my heart is thirsty for that noble pledge. fill, lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup; i cannot drink too much of brutus' love. [exit lucius. enter titinius, with messala] brutus. come in, titinius; welcome, good messala. now sit we close about this taper here, and call in question our necessities. cassius. portia, art thou gone? brutus. no more, i pray you. what moral dilemma does brutus confront in this excerpt? brutus lets go of his anger toward cassius and forgives him. brutus decides that he will not mourn portia and will stay loyal to cassius. brutus decides that he is too angry at cassius to remain friends with him. brutus questions whether cassius's life should be ended.