Excerpt from hamlet
by william shakespeare
how weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,
seem to me all the uses of this world!
fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
that grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
part a
which image in the passage refers to the book of genesis?
garden
nature
rank
seed
part b
how has the author transformed the image from the book of genesis?
the speaker is old and tired.
the garden is unpleasant and overgrown.
the seeds will not grow properly.
there are too many people in the world.

Which of the following statements most closely reflects the author's description of the action taken by the united states supreme court in cases brought before them having to do with the japanese internment? a. "three years almost to the day, the supreme court decided that imprisoning japanese-americans was unconstitutional. " b. "the supreme court decided in favor of the japanese-americans in the very first case brought before them." c. "fred korematsu had plastic surgery and changed his name to avoid internment, making it the deciding case in the issue." d. "in april 1942 mitsue endo lost his habeus corpus case, thus postponing the supreme court's negative decision."

Exit in which of the following passages from the text is the author's motif of displacement and separation most evident? a. "in these ways it was a typical wartime departure, full of proud smiles and half-concealed worry." b. "it upheld the army's decision to limit the movements of a racially select group of citizens." c. "once the first year's turmoil cooled down, the authorities started letting us outside…" d. "if anything made that country habitable it was the mountains themselves…"

What background knowledge would best support this inference about mario?