Inferences Read the paragraph and answer the questions. 1. Mrs. Adams lived on a farm. She lived there with her husband, Mr. Adams, and her son, Cody. Once a week she hauled their trash to the big can behind the shed to be burned. She also had bags of glass, plastics, and cans to take to the recycling center in town. One Monday while Mr. Adams was out on the combine, she gathered the trash into a big bag and set out the box of matches on the kitchen counter. Cody asked if he could go with her to burn the trash, and she told him to get his jacket. He ran to his room. That's when Mrs. Adams realized that she had forgotten to empty the trash can in the bathroom. She left to do that. When Mrs. Adams returned to the kitchen, Cody was waiting by the door, shifting from foot to foot. As she reached for the trash bag so she could empty the bathroom can into it, she noticed a black dot on the tile floor. A black-ended match lay beside it. "Cody, did you play with my matches?" Mrs. Adams asked. "No, ma'am! Honest!" Cody replied, shaking his head. QUESTIONS: when he said he didn't do it. Cody was А. lying B giggling C serious D honest What kind of trash does not get recycled? A cans B tissues с paper D glass a dot What was the black spot on the floor? А. B a crumb C a bum mark D an insect i

Excerpt from 100% - the story of a patriot upton sinclair 10 so peter walked along, with his belt drawn tight, and his restless blue eyes wandering here and there, looking for a place to get a meal. there were jobs to be had, but they were hard jobs, and peter wanted an easy one. there are people in this world who live by their muscles, and others who live by their wits; peter belonged to the latter class; and had missed many a meal rather than descend in the social scale. 11 peter looked into the faces of everyone he passed, searching for a possible opening. some returned his glance, but never for more than a second, for they saw an insignificant looking man, undersized, undernourished, and with one shoulder higher than the other, a weak chin and mouth, crooked teeth, and a brown moustache too feeble to hold itself up at the corners. peters' straw hat had many straws missing, his second-hand brown suit was become third-hand, and his shoes were turning over at the sides. in a city where everybody was "hustling," everybody, as they phrased it, "on the make," why should anyone take a second glance at peter gudge? why should anyone care about the restless soul hidden inside him, or dream that peter was, in his own obscure way, a sort of genius? no one did care; no one did dream. 12 it was about two o'clock of an afternoon in july, and the sun beat down upon the streets of american city. there were crowds upon the streets, and peter noticed that everywhere were flags and bunting. once or twice he heard the strains of distant music, and wondered what was "up." peter had not been reading the newspapers; all his attention bad been taken up by the quarrels of the smithers faction and the lunk faction in the first apostolic church, otherwise known as the holy rollers, and great events that had been happening in the world outside were of no concern to him. peter knew vaguely that on the other side of the world half a dozen mighty nations were locked together in a grip of death; the whole earth was shaken with their struggles, and peter had felt a bit of the trembling now and then. but peter did not know that his own country had anything to do with this european quarrel, and did not know that certain great interests throughout the country had set themselves to rouse the public to action. based on the author's characterization of peter in paragraphs 10, 11, and 12, which word best describes him? a) industrious b) loyal c) patriotic d) poor