Fast! 20 points
read the excerpt from between the silver and the ash.

xavier

i don't understand. she wanted to be a farmer. i don't. i want to go to college. i want to be a doctor. she knew that.

kenneth

maybe you don't understand.

xavier

you're right. i don't understand. she gave me a farm. my dad's been trying to buy the harston farm for two years. for me to farm. i keep telling him i don't want to be a farmer, but he won't listen. and now the one person i thought understood me . .

kenneth

well . . there's more than one thing you can do with a farm. you don't have to farm it.

xavier

right. what else can you do with a farm besides plow it and plant it and harvest it, over and over again? what can you do with a farm besides farm it?

kenneth

sell it.

which is the best description of kenneth, based on this excerpt?

he is impatient with xavier for not understanding.
he is trying to convince xavier to sell the farm.
he quickly figures out xavier’s grandmother’s intentions.
he believes that xavier’s grandmother wanted xavier to farm.

Select the correct answer. read this excerpt from incidents in the life of a slave girl by harriet ann jacobs: among the ladies who were acquainted with my grandmother, was one who had known her from childhood, and always been very friendly to her. she had also known my mother and her children, and felt interested for them. at this crisis of affairs she called to see my grandmother, as she not unfrequently did. she observed the sad and troubled expression of her face, and asked if she knew where linda was, and whether she was safe. my grandmother shook her head, without answering. "come, aunt martha," said the kind lady, "tell me all about it. perhaps i can do something to you." which of these important concepts uncommon to abolitionist literature does jacobs depict in the excerpt? 1. some kind white characters were included in slave narratives so that northerners would not be offended. 2. southern society was complex and diverse with both good and bad people unlike northern stereotypes showed. 3. many kind slave owners and their slaves developed deep friendships. 4. most whites and blacks lived in harmony in the south and made efforts to each other. a. 1 and 4 b. 1 and 3 c. 1 and 2 d. 2 and 3

In the excerpt from the emancipation proclamation, which phrase or sentence supports the claim that president lincoln did not want the slaves to take up arms against their former masters?

Matt is writing a literary analysis essay on shakespeare's use of foreshadowing in act 1 scene 1 of richard 3. which lines in this excerpt from that scene can he use as textual evidence in his essay?