Read the following passage and select the three inferences that are most firmly based on the given information. 1At the very bottom of the American social ladder are the homeless. 2They are people whose worldly goods fill a few shopping bags. 3Social workers usually find that these people once were better off, but that some misfortune led to their losing their home. 4An apartment building, for example, is sold to a developer, and its poor tenants are evicted. 5A breadwinner loses his or her job because of a plant closing or a long illness. 6A woman leaves an abusive husband but cannot afford an apartment of her own. 7Whatever the cause, the result is the same: a person, a couple, a mother and her children, or an entire family living on the street. 8Having fallen from a higher rung on the social ladder, many of the homeless are unable to regain their position.

A.
People become homeless for a variety of reasons.

B.
People are usually homeless for only a short period of time.

C.
People are usually homeless for only a short period of time.

D.
Homeless people are often unfortunate, not lazy.

E.
Homeless people have only themselves to blame for their homelessness.

F.
The cost of renting even a modest apartment is often more than poor people can afford.

If the author of the gift of the magi had made the reader aware of the gifts that jim had purchased in the beginning of the story this would be an example of

Read the excerpt from act 1 of a doll's house. helmer: nora! [goes up to her and takes her playfully by the ear.] the same little featherhead! suppose, now, that i borrowed fifty pounds today, and you spent it all in the christmas week, and then on new year's eve a slate fell on my head and killed me, and— nora: [putting her hands over his mouth]. oh! don't say such horrid things. helmer: still, suppose that happened, —what then? nora: if that were to happen, i don't suppose i should care whether i owed money or not. helmer: yes, but what about the people who had lent it? nora: they? who would bother about them? i should not know who they were. helmer: that is like a woman! but seriously, nora, you know what i think about that. no debt, no borrowing. there can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. we two have kept bravely on the straight road so far, and we will go on the same way for the short time longer that there need be any struggle. nora: [moving towards the stove]. as you , torvald. how does the interaction between helmer and nora advance the plot? nora realizes that helmer will completely disapprove of her having borrowed money, so she has to continue to keep it a secret from him. nora realizes that she and helmer have the same ideas about financial issues, and the conversation brings them closer together later in the play. helmer realizes that nora is more responsible with money than he originally thought, and he trusts her more with finances later in the play. nora realizes that helmer knows a lot more about borrowing and lending, and she will seek his input later when she needs it.

Is the group of words a simple sentence, a compound sentence, or a run-on sentence? jan went on a quiz show, won two hundred dollars, and bought gifts for her family. a. run-on sentence b. compound sentence c. simple sentence