Part A In “How a Cat Played Robinson Crusoe,” what inference can be made about the cat's behavior while the family is still on the island?

She often gets food for herself.

She sometimes stays out all night.

She is afraid of certain things on the island.

She is used to going in and out of the house.
Question 2
Part B

Which evidence from the text best supports the inference in Part A?

“The cat had always been so coddled and pampered by the children that she had had no need to forage for herself.”

“Fortunately for her, she had learned to hunt the marsh mice and grass sparrows for amusement.”

“Still and desolate in the bright sunshine and the tearing wind, the house frightened her.”

“She could not understand the tight-closed shutters, or the blind, unresponding doors that would no longer open to her anxious appeal.”

Expand the outline you wrote in lesson 1 about the american dream into an argumentative research essay. as in most essays, you'll need to include an introduction, body, and conclusion. you'll also need to support your claim with evidence

Which traits are strongest in your persuasive essay: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, or conventions?

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion