Which sentence best shows the central idea of the excerpt?
O "Elizabethans do not understand infection and
contagion as we do."
O "It is not that they are completely ignorant as to how
illnesses spread—physicians believe they know
perfectly wellit is rather that their understanding is
very different from ours."
O "The principal ideas underpinning most Elizabethan
medical thinking come from Galen, who lived in the
second century A. D."
O "If there is too much choler in your body, you will grow
choleric; too much blood and you will be sanguine, too
much phlegm and you will be phlegmatic; and too
much black bile makes you melancholic."

Choose the word or phrase that best matches the word in italics that he could do something so contemptible was hard to believe a. worthy of respect b. deserving to be despised c. amazing d. amusing

Read the following excerpt from string by alice childress: maydelle. oh, look at you. if you had a nice suit perhapsnone of this would have happened.joe. l. v. got a nice suit, he got maybe forty nice suits andhe live in a pretty white house with a lawn in the front of it... but he cheatswhich statement best explains how the author uses symbolism in thisexcerpt? a. joe stands for the general turmoil that followed the years after thecivil rights act of 1964, which included riots and assassinations.b. with his combination of nice clothes and immoral behavior, l. v.represents the price some african americans paid in order toescape poverty.c. by describing l v.'s clothes in the same breath as his evilbehavior, joe points out that l. v. is only good on the outside, noton the insideod. the tension between joe and l. v. culminates in a physicalaltercation that is only broken up when the women in the playintervene.

Which of the following best describes the setting of "marigolds"?