End of Semester Test: English 10A
Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu.
Read this excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. Then fill in the blanks in the paragraph that follows.
TRUE! -nervous- very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my
senses -- not destroyed -- not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. 1
heard many things in hell. How, then, am [mad? Hearkenl and observe how healthily - how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion
there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold i had no desire. I think it was his
eyel yes, it was this. He had the eye of a vulture - a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever It fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so
by degrees - very gradually - I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.

In these opening lines, the reader is presented with a narrator who wants to kill "the old man" because of his eye. The author uses the
lines to present a
conflict. Based on this excerpt, this stage of the plot is most likely to occur in

First blank
A) a character versus self
B) a character versus nature
C) a character versus society

Second blank
A)the exposition
B)the climax
C)the falling action
D)the resolution

Please help!!

Read the passage, then answer the question that follows. no one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. it was a hint—just a glimpse, like a twist that comes about two thirds of the way through a movie—that the end of the age of sugar was in sight. for beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the age of science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips. in 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. by 1899 the percentage had risen to about 65 percent. and beet sugar was just the first challenge to cane. by 1879 chemists discovered saccharine—a laboratory-created substance that is several hundred times sweeter than natural sugar. today the sweeteners used in the foods you eat may come from corn (high-fructose corn syrup), from fruit (fructose), or directly from the lab (for example, aspartame, invented in 1965, or sucralose—splenda—created in 1976). brazil is the land that imported more africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. cane grows in brazil today, but not always for sugar. instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in america now convert their harvest into fuel. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how does this passage support the claim that sugar was tied to the struggle for freedom? it shows that the invention of beet sugar created competition for cane sugar. it shows that technology had a role in changing how we sweeten our foods. it shows that the beet sugar trade provided jobs for formerly enslaved workers. it shows that sweeteners did not need to be the product of sugar plantations and slavery.