Read the following excerpt from a speech: Your honor, the accused young woman is not the guilty
party here, but the victim. She was manipulated into the
crime by her friend, who is the real mastermind of the
robbery. If she were found guilty, it would send a terrible
message to other young people that they are responsible
for the bad actions of their friends.
By ending the speech this way, what reaction does the speaker most likely
expect from the audience?

A. To consider the wider implications of the situation.
B. To condemn the young woman’s friend.
C. To examine a concrete reason the young women is innocent.
D. To identify with the young women’s situation.

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.

"endangered dreams: the great depression in california: " which word best summarizes the author's description of the pea pickers camp?

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