What is the author’s overall purpose in the text? Banksy and the tradition of destroying art A

to explore the motivations for Banksy, and other artists, to destroy their art

B

to show how artists have been able to increase the market value of their art

C

to reveal to readers how Banksy was able to destroy his own art after it sold

D

to show how the art world’s interest is always changing and difficult to predict

Which word in the passage the reader determine the meaning of the word miscarriage? toilattracteddicgraced

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were a wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.