Which word or words could best replace the underlined word as it is used in the paragraph? it is always interesting to see which tactic my little sister chooses to avoid eating her peas. her latest trick is to push them into a tiny hole she found in her high chair. now it rattles and my mother thinks it has a loose screw. a. day b. food c. plan d. time the underlined word is tactic

Agood persuasive essay topic cannot be a. a fact b. debatable c. something somebody else has already written about

On november 17, 1968, football fans across the united states sat glued to their televisions. a close game between two top teams—the new york jets and the oakland raiders—was being broadcast. when the jets pulled ahead with only fifty seconds remaining, viewers went wild. but then, just as the raiders were bringing the ball across midfield, the game disappeared from the screen! in its place, a previously scheduled children's movie, heidi, started playing. callers flooded the tv network's phone lines, but it was too late. the raiders scored two touchdowns in the very final moments—touchdowns that were unseen by all but west coast viewers. as a result of the interrupted event, dubbed "the heidi game," television networks began delaying their regularly scheduled programs until football games had ended.

Before odysseus talks about the lotus-eaters and the cyclops, what other events does he refer to? a. the advances of suitors that his wife penelope must fend off b. the attack by poseidon on his ship c. the attack and raid on the land of the cicones d. the nights he spent inside the trojan horse