The following line from "the story of an hour" shows a thought mrs. mallard has about marriage: "a kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination." which best paraphrases her thought?

getting married is a crime if it is done with cruel intentions.
even if it is done with good intentions, confining a woman to marriage is a crime.
marriage is less a crime if the people both have kind intentions.
it is not a crime to confine a woman to marriage if the husband's intentions are good.

Which sentence uses all its nominative case pronouns correctly? a we live on the same street b them and rachel are good skaters. c the redskins fans in the family are fred and me d have joanne and him played tennis together before?

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky

Complete the sentence. there are progressive verb forms in english. four six twelve eight