1. read the following sentences from “the censors.”
only his darling mother worried, but she couldn’t get him back on the right road. she’d say, thought it wasn’t always true: lola called, she’s at the bar with the girls, they miss you, they’re waiting for you. or else she’d leave a bottle of red wine on the table.
how does the writer mostly reveal the mother’s character?
a. through her actions
b. through her thoughts
c. through the narrator’s description of her
d. through her interactions with other characters

2. read the following sentences from “the youngest doll.”
the aunt thought he was listening for the breathing of the prawn to see if it was still alive, and she fondly lifted his hand and placed it on the spot where he could feel the constant movement of the creature’s antennae. the young man released the ruffle and looked fixedly at his father. “you could have cured his from the start,” he told him. “that’s true,” his father answered, “but i just wanted you to see the prawn that has been paying for your education these twenty years.”
in these sentences, the prawn most likely symbolizes
a. a craving for power and knowledge
b. a sense of selfish motivation and greed
c. a feeling of unity between father and son
d. a secret shared between doctor and patient

3. read the following sentences from "the censors."
only his darling mother worried, but she couldn't get him back on the right road. she’d say, though it wasn't always true: lola called, she’s at the bar with the girls, they miss you, they're waiting for you. or else she'd leave a bottle of red wine on the table.

how does the writer mostly reveal the mother's character? (1 point)
a. through her actions
b. through her thoughts
c. through the narrator's description of her
d. through her interactions with other characters

Select all the correct answers. in which two sentences does the author use an ironic tone toward the subject? a.she had no dowry, no expectations, no way of being known, understood, loved, married by any rich and distinguished man; so she let herself be married to a little clerk of the ministry of public instruction. b.natural ingenuity, instinct for what is elegant, a supple mind are their sole hierarchy, and often make of women of the people the equals of the very greatest ladies. c.the girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks. d.she dressed plainly because she could not dress well, but she was unhappy as if she had really fallen from a higher station.

Read the passage from animal farm. one sunday morning squealer announced that the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs. napoleon had accepted, through whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week. the price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier. when the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry. they had been warned earlier that this sacrifice might be necessary, but had not believed that it would really happen. they were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. for the first time since the expulsion of jones, there was something resembling a rebellion. led by three young black minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart napoleon's wishes. their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor. napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly. he ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. the dogs saw to it that these orders were carried out. for five days the hens held out, then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes. nine hens had died in the meantime. their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died of coccidiosis. whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away. which detail from the passage supports the claim that this is an allegory for the great purge? the hens holding out for five days but capitulating the eggs being delivered to the grocer the protesting hens being intentionally starved coccidiosis spreading on the farm

Write a sentence using a gerund phrase with a pronoun subject.