Read the passage from "Things That Matter.”

"Well, without a good ankle, I won’t have a chance at the Olympics,” said Rae hotly.

The young man was suddenly silent. After a moment, he said, "The Olympics?”

"I’m in training for the winter Olympics,” Rae said. "Snowboarding.”

"Wow.” He shook his head. He seemed to be trying to clear it of his own worries so he could think about hers. "The Olympics. No wonder you were mad.”

Which is the best way to summarize the passage?

Jake asks Rae a bunch of questions after she shouts at him.
Rae yells at Jake so much that the poor guy just stops talking.
Rae explains to Jake that she’s in training to compete in snowboarding in the Olympics.
Jake realizes that Rae is mad about falling because she’s in training for the Olympics.

the last one is the correct answe

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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