1. Frederick Douglass discusses how Harriet Tubman does not receive applause for her private actions in the abolitionist movement – what are the benefits to contributing
privately to a cause? What are the disadvantages or dangers?

Which of the following sentences uses dashes correctly? a. i looked under the bed - get this - and there it was! b. i need - a lot of - colors for this painting. c. i can't believe my own - brother! - is now a mayor. d. tom and i - are planning - a wedding in june.

Read this excerpt from the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne and complete the sentence that follows. she had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate. the author uses the point of view in the excerpt.

Hillenbrand writes, "as louie blazed through college, far away, history was turning" (p. 43). why does the author interrupt louie's narrative with information about japan and germany?