Which of the following best states the author's overall purpose in the text?
A. To persuade the reader to accept Strauss & Howe’s generational theory
B. To inform the reader of a theory that attempts to explain why generations act the way they do
C. To persuade the reader that Strauss & Howe's generational theory is incorrect
D. To inform the reader of how we can begin predicting the future

Which of the following is a possible theme statement for the topic “edna and her children”? a mother needs to put her children’s needs ahead of her own.children can sometimes come between a married couple.grandparents can with raising children.the needs and demands of others prevent individuals from being true to themselves.

Which of the following is a skill that would contribute to someone’s academic identity? a. researching b. marketing c. negotiating d. networking

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.