Read the following scenario. Your friend Janie has been told that she needs to move to another state. She is upset because she has to leave in the middle of her senior year of high school. Which is an example of active listening?

Which sentence does not contain any errors in the use of italics or quotation marks? A. I often forget to cross my t's when I'm writing quickly. B. Mike's home address begins with a "2." C. The word love appears five times in that note. D.

What is Thomas Paine's central claim in this excerpt? A. There will always be a distinction between kings and their subjects. B. The equality that humans enjoyed during creation has been ruined because of war and famine. C.

What's the longest stick?

Which type of figurative language is observed in the following sentence? "A dress down to the ground, in this hot weather. A dress so loud it hurts my eyes. There are yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun.

What is the mood of the townspeople as they sather for the lottery?

Which word in the choices below completes the analogy? Arbitrary : Chance : : Constant: A. Subversive B. Chronic C. Irreversible D. Frustration

Montgomery Ward and Sears Roebuck created "five-and-dime stores" that brought department store merchandise to farmers and residents of small towns. a. True b. False

Read the passage. It begins when people leave the crowded city and move to a rural area. They build a new community and more people move in. Development follows until most of the land has been used. Then citizens organize to stop the development.

Read the excerpt from "The Mâori: Genealogies and Origins in New Zealand" and answer the question that follows. We were the elements of nature, but there was not yet any world for us to live in.

Who was the Welsh cleric who lived from ca. 1100 to 1155 and wrote "The Prophecies of Merlin", the poetic "Life of Merlin", and the "History of the Kings of Britain", which contains the earliest full account of King Arthur's life as well as some of