Piz will mark brain if posible “this land [of south america] is very pleasing, full of an infinite number of very tall trees which never lose their leaves and throughout the year are fragrant with the sweetest aromas and yield an endless supply of fruits, many of which are good to taste and conducive to bodily health. the fields produce many herbs and flowers and most delicious and wholesome roots that i fancied myself near the terrestrial paradise. what shall we say of the multitude of birds and their plumes and colours and singing and their numbers and their beauty? i am unwilling to enlarge upon this description, because i doubt if i would be believed. . we saw so many . . animals that i believe so many species could not have entered noah’s ark. we saw many wild hogs, wild goats, stags and does, hares, and rabbits, but of domestic animals, not one.” —amerigo vespucci, as quoted in eyewitness to history vespucci hesitates to describe the birds in detail because a. no one would believe him. c. they are familiar to his readers. b. he couldn’t see them. d. they are dangerous.

Read the excerpt from the monsters are due on maple street.as they suddenly start toward the house. in this brief fraction of a moment they take the first step toward performing a metamorphosis that changes people from a group into a mob. they begin to head purposefully across the street toward the house at the end. steve stands in front of them. for a moment their fear almost turns their walk into a wild stampede but steve's voice, loud, incisive and commanding, makes them stop.stevewait a minute . . wait a minute! let's not be a mob! the people stop as a group, seem to pause for a moment and then much more quietly and slowly start to walk across the street.which sentence from the excerpt is an example of foreshadowing? a) as they suddenly start toward the house.b) in this brief fraction of a moment they take the first step toward performing a metamorphosis that changes people from a group into a mob.c) they begin to head purposefully across the street toward the house at the end.d) the people stop as a group, seem to pause for a moment and then much more quietly and slowly start to walk across the street.