Read the excerpt from act 2 of a doll's house. helmer: rank led me to expect a splendid transformation. rank: [in the doorway] i understood so, but evidently i was mistaken. nora: yes, nobody is to have the chance of admiring me in my dress until tomorrow. helmer: but, my dear nora, you look so worn out. have you been practising too much? nora: no, i have not practised at all. helmer: but you will need to— nora: yes, indeed i shall, torvald. but i can't get on a bit without you to me; i have absolutely forgotten the whole thing. helmer: oh, we will soon work it up again. nora: yes, me, torvald. promise that you will! i am so nervous about it—all the people—. you must give yourself up to me entirely this evening. not the tiniest bit of business—you mustn't even take a pen in your hand. will you promise, torvald dear? helmer: i promise. this evening i will be wholly and absolutely at your service, you little mortal. ah, by the way, first of all i will just— [goes towards the hall door.] nora: what are you going to do there? helmer: only see if any letters have come. nora: no, no! don't do that, torvald! helmer: why not? nora: torvald, don't. there is nothing there. how does ibsen use dramatic irony to create suspense in this passage? rank says that he thought nora would be dressed up, while helmer says that he did not expect her to be. nora tells helmer that there are no letters in the box, while the audience knows that there is a letter from krogstad. nora says that no one can see her in her costume until the party, where she will dance the tarantella. helmer and rank promise to nora practice dancing, because she has not been practicing all day.

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In just over one hundred years, between 1701 and 1810, 252,500 enslaved africans were brought to barbados—an island that occupies only 166 square miles (making it, today, one of the smallest countries in the world). the english then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with jamaica, which they took from spain in 1655. in the same period that the 252,500 africans were brought to barbados, 662,400 africans were taken to jamaica. thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the atlantic, to barbados and jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. the english were eagerly filling antigua, nevis, saint kitts, and montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. they took over much of dutch guiana for the same reason. seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the french started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of hispaniola that they controlled (which is now haiti), as well as martinique, guadeloupe, and french guiana (along the south american coast near dutch guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more african slaves. by 1753, british ships were taking average of 34,250 slaves from africa every year, and by 1768, that number had reached 53,100. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? x(a) they use secondary sources to show how french and english monarchs were indifferent to enslaved people. x(b)they use secondary sources to show that enslaved people often fought for their freedom after arriving in the caribbean. the answer is: (c)they use facts from primary sources to show how countries increased the number of enslaved people to produce more sugar. x(d)they use primary source interviews to show that countries could make more money in trading sugar without using enslaved people.

Which excerpt from chapter 3 of the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde illustrates a character vs. character conflict? hosts loved to detain the dry lawyer, when the light-hearted and loose-tongued had already their foot on the threshold; they liked to sit a while in his unobtrusive company. the large handsome face of dr. jekyll grew pale to the very lips, and there came a blackness about his eyes. “i do not care to hear more,” said he. “this is a matter i thought we had agreed to drop.” “my good utterson,” said the doctor, “this is very good of you, this is downright good of you, and i cannot find words to you in. i believe you fully; i would trust you before any man alive, ay, before myself.” but i do sincerely take a great, a very great interest in that young man; and if i am taken away, utterson, i wish you to promise me that you will bear with him and get his rights for him.”