Read the excerpt from robert browning’s poem “my last duchess” and select the theme the excerpt conveys.

e’en then would be some stooping; and i choose
never to stoop. oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt,
whene’er i passed her; but who passed without
much the same smile? this grew; i gave commands;
then all smiles stopped together. there she stands
as if alive. will’t you rise? we’ll meet
the company below, then. i repeat,

a.
shock
b.
passion
c.
society
d.
obsession

Skill check questions rearrange the paragraphs below into the correct sequence. that's because engineers on the ultraclean project have invented a self-cleaning, antibacterial metal surface that repels water with an intricate layer of laser-engraved valleys. when it rains, the lotus does not become damp; the water simply trickles off in fat droplets, taking any bugs and dirt with it. the drudgery may not be around much longer, however, if a team of italian scientists has anything to do with it “it's simply an amazing plant,” concluded professor luca romoli, leader of the project, “and we've succeeded in mimicking it. magnifico! ” few tasks in life hold less joy than scrubbing the ghost of somebody else’s porridge from a saucepan. the starting point for the research was the leaves of the lotus flower.

7. a line of symmetry divides a design so that every point on one side of the line coincides a point on the other side of it determine how many lines of symmetry each figure below has then draw all the lines of symmetry. show your work

The overwhelming majority of the peoples and nations of the world today want to live in peace