Read this excerpt from Henry Ford's autobiography, My Life and Work. We were a prosperous company. We might easily have sat down and said: "Now we have arrived. Let us hold what
we have got."
Indeed, there was some disposition to take this stand. Some of the stockholders were seriously alarmed when our
production reached one hundred cars a day. They wanted to do something to stop me from ruining the company.
and whenI replied to the effect that one hundred cars a day was only a trifle and that I hoped before long to make
a thousand a day, they were inexpressibly shocked and l understand seriously contemplated court action...
The temptation to stop and hang on to what one has is quite natural. I can entirely sympathize with the desire to
quit a life of activity and retire to a ife of ease. I have never felt the urge myself but I can comprehend what it is -
although I think that a man who retires ought entirely to get out of a business. There is a disposition to retire and
retain control. It was, however, no part of my plarn to do anything of that sort. I regarded our progress merely as an
invitation to do more.
Based on this excerpt, which words best describe Henry Ford?
educated and intelligent
O kindhearted and considerate
oboont mindod ond oablonn

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

What does brutus say that anticipates the question of why the crowd should listen to mark antony? o a. not that i lov'd caesar less, but that i lov'd rome more. o b. and, for my sake, stay here with antony. do grace to caesar's corpse, and grace his speech. o c. i thrice presented him a kingly crown, / which he did thrice refuse. was this ambition? od. i come to bury caesar, not to praise him.

The rich natural resources made the sacramento valley a "garden of eden." permanent villages were established about 8,000 years ago.which choice combines these two sentences from paragraph two to achieve a coherent flow of ideas? a) the rich natural resources made the sacramento valley a "garden of eden" and permanent villages were established about 8,000 years ago. b) permanent villages were established about 8,000 years ago and the rich natural resources made the sacramento valley a "garden of eden." c) the rich natural resources made the sacramento valley a "garden of eden; " and so the permanent villages were established about 8,000 years ago. d) because of the rich natural resources which made the sacramento valley a ‘garden of eden,’ native americans established permanent villages there 8,000 years ago.