Multiple choice: There are many reasons why an author might choose to use the omniscient point of view. Which of the following is NOT a likely reason?

a. It allows the reader to notice the contrast between what the characters think and what they say.
b. It lets the reader to see the difference between what the characters say and what they do.
c. It helps the reader to immerse him or herself into the feelings of a single character.
d. It creates suspense since the reader is aware of potential conflicts that other characters don't know about.

What do the words spoken by the mouse in paragraph 3 tell us about her character?

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

In hard times by charles dickens, the scene in which the characters discuss the depiction of horses on wallpaper and flowers on carpets is the author’s way of showing the absurdity of