Read the passage below from “Pinball: Where Science Meets Fun.” We’re talking pirate ships that sink, small basketballs you shoot, miniature people, buildings, and vehicles; exploding castles, ringing phones, moving trains, gumball machines that spit out pinballs, trolls that pop up out of nowhere, even balls that magically levitate!
Which words best infer the tone of the passage above?

spit out pinballs
small basketball
ringing phones
magically levitate

In chapter 3, scout criticizes her classmate, walter cunningham, for asking for molasses and then pouring it on his vegetables and meat while he was a guest at the finch home. in this scene, what does the author’s use of flashback in a first person point-of- view narration achieve?

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were a wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.

Which section of the passage illustrates mrs. dalloway's feelings of emptiness caused by her social identity