Choose the best paraphrase of this text: porpoises swim around the coast, catching small fish. but they don't touch the sharp-nosed puffer fish because it is poisonous. (world book illustrated atlas page 158) a) porpoises are small catchy fish who avoid sharp-nosed puffer fish in case they are poisonous. b) porpoises swim around the seashore catching little fish. however, they avoid the poisonous sharp-nosed puffer fish. c) sharp-nosed puffer fish avoid porpoises near the coast because they are dangerous. d) porpoises and small fish swim around the coast. they do not go near the sharp-nosed puffer fish because it is poisonous.

Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.

Araby every morning i lay on the floor in the front parlour watching her door. the blind was pulled down to within an inch of the sash so that i could not be seen. when she came out on the doorstep my heart leaped. i ran to the hall, seized my books and followed her. i kept her brown figure always in my eye and, when we came near the point at which our ways diverged, i quickened my pace and passed her. this happened morning after morning. i had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood. what is the general tone of the passage? a. courageous b. comical c. passionate d. fearful

Choose the correctly punctuated sentence. (a) will we ever get there? sandy asked fretfully. (b) "will we ever get there," sandy asked fretfully? (c) "will we ever get there", sandy asked fretfully. (d) "will we ever get there? " sandy asked fretfully. (e) "will we ever get there"? sandy asked fretfully.