Which best summarizes the events from the poem contained in these lines? "when the sun was sunken, he set out to visit the lofty hall-building, how the ring-danes had used it for beds and benches when the banquet was over. then he found there reposing many a noble asleep after supper; sorrow the heroes, misery knew not. the monster of evil greedy and cruel tarried but little, fell and frantic, and forced from their slumbers thirty of thanemen" a. beowulf arrived at the mead-hall and disturbed the sleeping danes. b. the king asked all the visiting danes to stay the night in the mead-hall. c. grendel entered the mead-hall and attacked the danes while they slept. d. the danes were so tired after fighting grendel they fell asleep in the mead-hall.

Which word in the sentence is the object of the preposition ? scrape the dishes and put them in the sink 1)in 2)them 3)dishes 4)sink

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion

Which sentence contains a participial phrase that is placed correctly? -jose paid for a hamburger scanning the cafeteria for an empty seat -peeling off her winter jacket, sierra settled into the cozy armchair. -made of soft wool, nadia pulled on a blue sweater -the cowboy jumped from the horse laughing in the face of danger