(from "the bet," by anton chekhov)
then after the tenth year, the prisoner sat immovably at the table and read nothing but the gospel. il seemed strange to the banker that a man who in four years had mastered six hundred learned
volumes should waste nearly a year over one thin book easy of comprehension. theology and histories of religion followed the gospels
in the last two years of his confinement the prisoner read an immense quantity of books quite indiscriminately. at one time he was busy with the natural sciences, then he would ask for byron or
shakespeare. there were notes in which he demanded at the same time books on chemistry, and a manual of medicine, and a novel and some treatise on philosophy or theology his reading
suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching first at one spar (definition a pole on a ship) and then at another
if the effect was the lawyer leaming many things during his confinement, what was the cause? what sentences and signal words tell you this? be as detailed as possible in your response. provide
at least three sentences for your answer include specific quotations from the text that show why you came to your conclusion

The book the sweet-hereafter; in section four, which of the following is the extended metaphor for nichole's mental state. a) the room her father built her from the sun-room b) the wheel chair she sits in c)the computer from mr. stephens d) the teddy bear from her childhood

What do you think inspires people to come up with great inventions? explain in 4 sentences

Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.