Fast! 20 points
read the excerpt from between the silver and the ash.

xavier

i don't understand. she wanted to be a farmer. i don't. i want to go to college. i want to be a doctor. she knew that.

kenneth

maybe you don't understand.

xavier

you're right. i don't understand. she gave me a farm. my dad's been trying to buy the harston farm for two years. for me to farm. i keep telling him i don't want to be a farmer, but he won't listen. and now the one person i thought understood me . .

kenneth

well . . there's more than one thing you can do with a farm. you don't have to farm it.

xavier

right. what else can you do with a farm besides plow it and plant it and harvest it, over and over again? what can you do with a farm besides farm it?

kenneth

sell it.

which is the best description of kenneth, based on this excerpt?

he is impatient with xavier for not understanding.
he is trying to convince xavier to sell the farm.
he quickly figures out xavier’s grandmother’s intentions.
he believes that xavier’s grandmother wanted xavier to farm.

Who thin the context of this excerpt from act 2, scene 1, of macbeth, what is the meaning of the word multitudinous?

“dylan was a revolutionary,” bruce springsteen said in his 1988 speech inducting dylan into the rock and roll hall of fame. “the way that elvis freed your body, bob freed your mind.” early masterpieces such as “a hard rain’s a-gonna fall” and “visions of johanna” and “like a rolling stone” fueled a debate: are rock lyrics poetry? the answer must be yes, because on thursday, dylan was awarded the highest honor for a writer: the nobel prize in literature. the swedish academy, in making him the first american winner since novelist toni morrison in 1993, cited him for “having created new poetic expressions within the great american song tradition.” –“dylan's nobel prize settles debate: rock lyrics are poetry,” dan deluca what is the best summary of the author’s claim? rock lyrics can be like poetry. bob dylan was a revolutionary. musicians deserve nobel prizes. more americans deserve nobel prizes.

Lesson 10: crossing borders: unit test “borders” 1.what does the mother’s refusal to state her nationality as canadian or american signify? a)that she resents governmental interference with her life b)that she identifies with neither country c)that she comes from somewhere else d)that she is stubborn and proud 4.the author’s chosen visual images, sensory details, and dialogue all convey a particular feeling in “delfino ii: diez in the desert.” thus feeling is known as: a)tone b)mood c)pathos 5.compare and contrast the poem “mexicans begin jogging” and the story “delfino ii: diez in the desert.” a)both are written about similar themes (immigration), but the story has a more serious mood than the poem b)both focus on mexican immigrants, but the story has a lighter tone than the poem. c)both main characters are afraid: diez is afraid of being caught smuggling people over the border, and soto is afraid of being caught working illegally. d)the tone in both selections is similar, but the subject matter differs slightly. 15. the tone of the poem “ka’ba” versus the tone of the poem “harlem ii” might be described as a)grateful vs ungrateful b)certain vs doubtful c) hurtful vs defeated d)safe vs dangerous