Which best summarizes this passage? mrs. brandeis does well in business. she owns a general store. she is clever and carefully listens to the salesmen to be sure they are not cheating her. the dishonest salesmen do not try to trick her because they know that she always makes a duplicate sales slip. one day she buys a lot of battenberg patterns, and the town goes crazy over them. mrs. brandeis' friendly personality her to succeed in business. because she listens to the salesmen's troubles, they like her. one of the salesmen urges her to buy battenberg patterns and to complete and display one of them in the window. mrs. brandeis is not sure that this is a good idea, but she decides to do as the salesman suggests. as a result, she sells a lot of battenberg patterns. a storeowner named mrs. brandeis is unsure that the battenberg patterns will sell well. she thinks the cloth is ugly. sam kiser convinces her to give the patterns a try. soon the women of the town are buying patterns and buttons to make battenberg covers, doilies, bedspreads, blouses and curtains. mrs. brandeis becomes rich.

In virginia woolf's essay "a room of one's own," she creates a fictional sister of william shakespeare, whom she names "judith." what challenges does woolf claim this character would have experienced in her lifetime? why does woolf believe that elizabethan women did not write?

In 200 words, identify the theme of audre lorde's poem "hanging fire." support your answer with at least three examples (of your choosing) from the text.

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant