Read the excerpt below and answer the question. The Chinese people are suffering; it is our duty to save them and we must exert ourselves in struggle.

Choose the best synonym for the word exert as it is used in this excerpt from Mao Zedong’s speech “Serve the People.”

1. employ
2. keep
3. hurt
4. try

Now close reading is an essential and foundational skill needed to succeed in any language arts course. acquiring this skill will you form a strategy when writing about literature. you will be required to perform and develop this skill as you progress through this course and other courses in your school career. identify and discuss your areas of strength in language arts. what do you do well? what do you like doing in a course like this? why do those tasks work well for you? you can also identify a challenge you have that you’d like to work on throughout this course. use this discussion as an opportunity to give advice to your classmates based on your stronger skills and to ask for with skills you are still developing.

Iwas conscious that a moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties, and, like any other rebel slave, i felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths." what is meant by the term resolved as it is used in this sentence? a) determined b) questioning c) uneasy d) unsure

What does atticus do that makes mayella ewell think that he's making fun of her? what does this show us about mayella's life?