Read the excerpt from part 1 of "an occurrence at owl creek bridge."
he unclosed his eyes and saw again the water below him. "if i could free my hands," he thought, "i might throw off
the noose and spring into the stream. by diving i could evade the bullets and, swimming vigorously, reach the bank,
take to the woods and get away home. my home, god, is as yet outside their lines; my wife and little ones are
still beyond the invader's farthest advance."
as these thoughts, which have here to be set down in words, were flashed into the doomed man's brain rather than
evolved from it the captain nodded to the sergeant. the sergeant stepped aside.
based on the excerpt, which is the most reasonable plot prediction?
the prisoner will escape.
the prisoner will beg for mercy,
the execution will commence.
the sergeant will stop the hanging

The development of new inventions in the field of space travel seemed rapid. how does the word rapid function in a sentence?

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Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.