PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A? A. "By the end of September 1692, 20 people in Massachusetts Bay were dead by
order of the Court of Oyer and Terminer." (Paragraph 1)
B. "Pointing out how families had been ruined by the court's irresponsible pursuit
of witches, he wondered if people would someday 'not look upon these things
without the greatest of sorrow and grief imaginable."" (Paragraph 4)
C. "Although some restitution was eventually made to the families of the executed
and accused, the damage to lives was far reaching." (Paragraph 9)
D. "Once they were freed, they went back to living with neighbors, or in some cases
with family members, who had accused them of being witches." (Paragraph 9)

the correct answer is the first one.

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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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