What can you do to avoid the plague? The answer is: very little. Although there are no fewer than twenty-three medical treatises dedicated to it by 1600, including hundreds of recipes for medicines, none of them will help you. Nor will perfuming your room and airing it with fire save you—despite this being the official advice of the College of Physicians. –The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England,
Ian Mortimer

What tone does the passage most clearly convey?

Which phrase most clearly contributes to this tone?

In what way is this tone most effective?

Question 3 of 10 points which sentence is an example of chronological structure in "the city without o a. without daily pumping, manhattan's subway tunnels would be flooded o b. some time in the next 100,000 years, glaciers will cover all of manhattan o c. central park has a garden that houses plants mentioned in shakespeare's plays. o d. if flooding were to go unchecked, steel support beams in buildings would rust

Read this excerpt from white fang by jack london. the qualities in his kind that in the beginning made it possible for them to come in to the fires of men, were qualities capable of development. they were developing in him, and the camp-life, replete with misery as it was, was secretly endearing itself to him all the time. but white fang was unaware of it. he knew only grief for the loss of kiche, hope for her return, and a hungry yearning for the free life that had been his. which quotation from the paragraph supports the story’s theme of homesickness? “the camp life . . was secretly endearing itself to him all the time.” “but white fang was unaware of it.” “he knew only . . a hungry yearning for the free life that had been his.” “the qualities in his kind . . were qualities capable of development.”

Which evidence supports the inference that nora is afraid of what torvald will say if krogstad tells him about her forgery? do it for my sake—for your own sake—for the children's sake." "you don't know what that letter can bring upon us." "yes, it's too late." "you will never have to do that."