Reread this excerpt from "The Pony Express" Chapter 1 and answer the question that follows:

And this great crisis was only the bursting into flame of many smaller fires that had long been smoldering. For generations the two sections had been drifting apart. Since the middle of the seventeenth century, Mason and Dixon's line had been a line of real division separating two inherently distinct portions of the country.

This excerpt introduces the idea that the Civil War was predictable by comparing the events leading up to it to

A. Slow-burning fires

B. Quickly-lit fires

C. Easily-extinguished fires

D. Preventable fires

At the beginning of canto ii, dante invokes the muses. what does dante promise he will do in return? tell of their greatness stop fighting and rest a while act as if he were the apostle paul be courageous in his fight to return to earth

Read this excerpt from holes. he had no sailing experience, but the ship’s captain signed him aboard. the captain could see that elya was a man of great strength. not everybody could carry a full-grown pig up the side of a mountain. it wasn’t until the ship had cleared the harbor and was heading out across the atlantic that he suddenly remembered his promise to carry madame zeroni up the mountain. he felt terrible. what information does this flashback provide about elya? a.elya did not intend to break his promise to madame zeroni. b.madame zeroni is very angry and disappointed in elya. c.elya is terribly afraid of madame zeroni’s curse. d.elya does not care what happened to madame zeroni.

What word or phrase is modified by the prepositional phrase in the sentence below? marisol's puppy likes napping under the couch because it is warm and cozy