Q1. which best explains the prince's motivation for insisting that the swallow pluck out his sapphire eyes? a. so the swallow can afford to pay for a ship to take him to egypt b. so the swallow can give them to his beloved reed c. so he no longer has to see the misery in the city d. so he can give the jewels to needy people in the city q 2. which best identifies a theme of "a psalm of life"? a. life is full of surprises. b. there is safety in numbers. c. live life to the fullest. d. don't rush into anything in life. q 3. read the first stanza from "perseverance" by johann wolfgang von goethe: we must not hope to be mowers, and to gather the ripe gold ears, unless we have first been sowers and watered the furrows with tears. what is the rhyme scheme of the stanza? a. a b a b b. a a b b c. a b a c d. a b c b

The travels of marco polo. based on the text and the map, which labeled location sends products to shihr?

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Choose the option that includes the main claim in “the american promise”