“We have been living to­gether for many years. Where you go, I go.” Archibald Gracie, Hugh Woolner, other friends tried in vain to make her go. Then Woolner turned to Mr. Straus: “I’m sure nobody would object to an old gentleman like you getting in . . .”

“I will not go before the other men,” he said, and that was that. Then he and Mrs. Straus sat down together on a pair of deck chairs.

—A Night to Remember,
Walter Lord

What do readers learn about Mr. Straus from this conversation?
He wants the crewmen to let him on a lifeboat, because he is old.
He is proud and does not let his age get in the way of what he thinks is right.
He does not like being told what to do by other men.
He lets his wife tell him what to do, even if the situation is unsafe.

What is darrow’s main argument and the claims he makes in this excerpt? a. darrow argues that even if the boys are horrible monsters, their deaths will not solve the problems of society; he claims that society wants the boys to be executed because people enjoy watching public executions. b. he argues that the people who should be held responsible for the crime are leopold’s and loeb’s parents since they neglected their sons; he claims that leopold and loeb were jealous of the boy they killed because he had expensive belongings they could not afford. c. darrow argues that the boys should not face the death penalty; he claims they both suffer from mental illnesses that make them unable to tell the difference between a dream and reality. d. he argues that leopold and loeb, particularly dickie loeb, should not be executed; he claims they were teenagers who didn’t have proper adult guidance, so they are not responsible for what they did.

Who was the last member of the stuart line whose death left britain without a clear successor? a. george i b. queen anne c. charles ii d. queen elizabeth

Millicent sat down at her desk in the big study hall. tomorrow she would come to school, proudly, laughingly, without lipstick, with her brown hair straight and shoulder length, and then everybody would know, even the boys would know, that she was one of the elect. teachers would smile , thinking perhaps: so now they've picked millicent arnold. i never would have guessed it. —"initiation," sylvia plath what inference can be made about millicent from the way she is characterized indirectly? millicent is a student with straight brown hair. millicent does not usually take care of her appearance. millicent has not always been popular.