Read this excerpt from The Great Fire. As for Goll, he claimed later at the official inquiry into the fire that he had waited for Lee to leave and then turned in the alarm. Goll also insisted he turned in a second alarm when another man appeared ten minutes later to announce that the fire was spreading rapidly. Whether Goll lied about sending the alarms or whether the alarm box failed to work will never be known. What is clear, is that no alarm was recorded at the central alarm office in the Courthouse at the point when the fire was still containable.

How does the structure of this paragraph develop the theme that there were several missed opportunities to stop the fire? Choose the best answer.

by explaining the consequences Goll faced for lying about sounding the alarm and alerting the courthouse
by explaining how Goll’s apparent refusal to sound the alarm delayed the firefighters
by highlighting each of the mistakes, including Goll’s, that were made during the course of the fire
by highlighting the fact that Goll did sound the alarm, but it never went off at the central office

Which example from lorraine hansberry's a raisin in the sun best demonstrates the idea of multiculturalism? o a. george unsuccessfully tries to convince beneatha to act like a traditional wife. o b. asagai encourages beneatha to embrace her african heritage. o c. lena younger, or mama, holds the most power in the younger family. o d. the younger family attempts to move into an all-white neighborhood

In just over one hundred years, between 1701 and 1810, 252,500 enslaved africans were brought to barbados—an island that occupies only 166 square miles (making it, today, one of the smallest countries in the world). the english then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with jamaica, which they took from spain in 1655. in the same period that the 252,500 africans were brought to barbados, 662,400 africans were taken to jamaica. thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the atlantic, to barbados and jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. the english were eagerly filling antigua, nevis, saint kitts, and montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. they took over much of dutch guiana for the same reason. seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the french started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of hispaniola that they controlled (which is now haiti), as well as martinique, guadeloupe, and french guiana (along the south american coast near dutch guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more african slaves. by 1753, british ships were taking average of 34,250 slaves from africa every year, and by 1768, that number had reached 53,100. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? x(a) they use secondary sources to show how french and english monarchs were indifferent to enslaved people. x(b)they use secondary sources to show that enslaved people often fought for their freedom after arriving in the caribbean. the answer is: (c)they use facts from primary sources to show how countries increased the number of enslaved people to produce more sugar. x(d)they use primary source interviews to show that countries could make more money in trading sugar without using enslaved people.

In  the diary of anne frank, the characters feel sadness after reading the hopeful message written on the cake. which theme does this best illustrate? peace is often most appreciated after it has been lost.wartime is capable of bringing out the worst in people.  it is important to have someone in whom to confide.sharing difficult experiences can strengthen friendships