Read this excerpt from "Mars: Landscape of the Red Planet." Mars is known as the red planet. It is smaller than Earth, but it boasts as many dramatic landscapes. Since the invention of the telescope, people have been fascinated by the geological features of Mars, but given the limitations of their technology, these early scientists could only guess what it truly looked like.

What has most likely allowed people to have a better understanding of the landscape of Mars in recent times?

A.) improved technology
B.) more limited methods
C.) increased interest in space
D.) movies and books about Mars

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. which choice best describes the conflict in this poem? the winds are rocking the boat. a man is thrown into the sea. a woman doesn’t want to let go of her dead lover. someone is crying in the darkness.

Which revision of this sentence best uses direct characterization?

“dènouement” is another word for the of a plot.