Excerpt from The Truth About Diaries
Marie Devers

The truth is that my Diary’s like a novel from the store5
where I’m the leading lady whom the characters adore.6
In line 5 the word novel means

A) book.
B) comic.
C) movie.
D) new.

In part one of "cruel tribute," how do king aegeus's actions affect the advancement of the plot? he causes ariadne to fall in love with theseus. he causes theseus to become the new king. he causes the birth of a hero in troezen. he causes king minos to become angry.

What is the central idea of paragraph 1 of the story?

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were a wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.