Diane picked up one of the skull casts in her lab and held it up for her visitors to see. She pointed out two rounded gaps in the teeth on either side of the jaw. "This guy smoked a pipe," she explained. "He started on one side and then, when the pipe ground down the teeth, he had to switch to the other."
—Bone Detective: The Story of Forensic
Anthropologist Diane France,
Lorraine Jean Hopping
What do you learn about Diane France from the passage?

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.

The pop quiz surprised natasha more than read the sentence and choose the correct pronoun.

"introduction to oedipus the king": what is most likely the author's intent in writing about the difference(s) between sophocles's play and the original myth on which it's based?