Marking 20pts read the excerpt from chapter 8 of the travels of marco polo. now that i have given you this second-hand account of the gryphon bird, let me add that the great khan sent special emissaries here to learn about these islands, and again to treat for the release of a previous emissary who had been detained as a captive. and these later emissaries, and the other who had been held captive, had much to tell him of the marvels of these strange islands. i assure you that they brought back with them the tusks of a wild boar of monstrous size. he had one of them weighed and found that its weight was 14 lb. you may infer for yourselves what must have been the size of the boar that had such tusks as this. indeed they declare that some of these boars are as big as buffaloes. there are also giraffes in plenty, and wild asses too. altogether their beasts and birds are so different from ours that it is a marvel to hear tell of them and a greater marvel to behold them. to return for a moment to the gryphon birds, i should explain that the islanders call them rukhs and know them by no other name and have no idea what a gryphon is. but i feel sure from the monstrous size they attribute to the birds that they cannot be anything but gryphons. which details from the text best support the author's purpose to inform the reader that the islands are amazing to him? select three options. there are plenty of giraffes and wild asses on the islands. the wild boars on the island are as big as buffaloes, with 14 lb tusks. the gryphon birds are monstrous in size. the account of the gryphon bird is second-hand. the islanders call the gryphons “rukhs.”

Read the excerpt from act 1 of a doll's house. helmer: nora! [goes up to her and takes her playfully by the ear.] the same little featherhead! suppose, now, that i borrowed fifty pounds today, and you spent it all in the christmas week, and then on new year's eve a slate fell on my head and killed me, and— nora: [putting her hands over his mouth]. oh! don't say such horrid things. helmer: still, suppose that happened, —what then? nora: if that were to happen, i don't suppose i should care whether i owed money or not. helmer: yes, but what about the people who had lent it? nora: they? who would bother about them? i should not know who they were. helmer: that is like a woman! but seriously, nora, you know what i think about that. no debt, no borrowing. there can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. we two have kept bravely on the straight road so far, and we will go on the same way for the short time longer that there need be any struggle. nora: [moving towards the stove]. as you , torvald. how does the interaction between helmer and nora advance the plot? nora realizes that helmer will completely disapprove of her having borrowed money, so she has to continue to keep it a secret from him. nora realizes that she and helmer have the same ideas about financial issues, and the conversation brings them closer together later in the play. helmer realizes that nora is more responsible with money than he originally thought, and he trusts her more with finances later in the play. nora realizes that helmer knows a lot more about borrowing and lending, and she will seek his input later when she needs it.