Which sentence best paraphrases these important closing lines of the poem? a) she decided to use the cover of night to run away and never be found again. b) she wished to be hidden in the dark somewhere near black water so no one would suddenly appear and see her. c) there were only a few people who were able to hide her in the dark night so that her husband would not find her. d) she thought there were only a few ways to commit suicide and leave no mark: after drowning herself in the water at night there would be no indication of it the next day.

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt