Part a

how does ezra's behavior after his mom and his aunt leave affect the story?
a. it creates tension by revealing, for the first time, how nervous ezra is about going out with juliana.
b. it increases the suspense by subtly foreshadowing that ezra may not be focused enough on driving the new convertible.
c. it creates humor by showing ezra realizing that his mother and aunt were only pretending to be wary of lending him the car.
d. it creates mystery by revealing, just moments before the date, how little ezra really knows about juliana

part bwhich evidence from the text best supports the correct answer in part a? a. ezra lets out a "hoot" because he is so nervous about going on a date with juliana, whom he has liked for years. b. ezra thinks more about how impressed juliana will be, her parents' surprise, and how fine he'll look driving the car than he does about driving safely. c. ezra worries that juliana might think that driving a car that "had cost as much as a small house" is foolish because he barely knows her. d. ezra realizes that his mother and his aunt want his date with juliana to go well just as much as he wants it to go well.

Select the contred text in the passage which sentence in this excerpt from john galsworthy's narrative essay "gone" reflects his view that there is no afterlife? an old woman and mrs. herd's sister were in the sitting-room, they showed us to the crazy, narrow stairway. though we lived distant but four hundred yards of a crows flight, we had never seen mrs. herd before, for that is the way of things in this land of minding one's own business a slight dark girlish-looking woman, almost quite refined away, and with those eyes of the dying, where the spirit is coming through, as it only does when it knows that al is over except just the passing. she lay in a double bed with clean white sheets. a white-washed room, so low that the ceiling almost touched our heads, some flowers in a bow, the small lattice window open. though it was hot in there, it was better far than the rooms of most families in towns, living on a wage of twice as much, for here was no sign of defeat in decency or cleanliness. in her face, as in poor herd's, was that same strange minging of resigned despair and almost eager appeal, so terrible to disappoint. yet, trying not to disappoint it, one felt guilty of treachery: what was the good, the kindness in making this poor bird flutter still with hope against the bars, when fast prison had so surely closed in round her? but what else could we do? we could not give her those glib assurances that naive souls make so easily to others concerning their after state. and the night was so beautiful, so utterly glamourously beautiful, with its star-flowers, and its silence and its trees clothed in moonlight. all was tranquil as a dream of sleep. but it was long before our hearts wandering with poor herd, would let us remember that she had slipped away into so beautiful a dream

Read this excerpt from the lady of shalott by alfred, lord tennyson. in which three lines does the poet reveal the monotomy of the lady’s existence

How does a wilted rose represent dark romanticism