Read the following scenario: The Texas government wants to encourage local business. They pass a bill requiring all gas stations within the state to buy fuel only from Texas oil companies. The legislature maintains that this bill will help to strengthen the Texas economy. Based on your understanding of Gibbons v. Ogden, which of the following will most likely happen? The state’s economy will flourish because Texas oil companies will make more profit and pay more in taxes to the state. The state’s economy will crumble because competition is limited and the price of gas will increase. The Federal government will step in to override the bill because it violates the Constitutional authority of Congress. The Federal government will step in to override the bill because it limits competition and effects international trade.

Read the excerpt from the monsters are due on maple street.as they suddenly start toward the house. in this brief fraction of a moment they take the first step toward performing a metamorphosis that changes people from a group into a mob. they begin to head purposefully across the street toward the house at the end. steve stands in front of them. for a moment their fear almost turns their walk into a wild stampede but steve's voice, loud, incisive and commanding, makes them stop.stevewait a minute . . wait a minute! let's not be a mob! the people stop as a group, seem to pause for a moment and then much more quietly and slowly start to walk across the street.which sentence from the excerpt is an example of foreshadowing? a) as they suddenly start toward the house.b) in this brief fraction of a moment they take the first step toward performing a metamorphosis that changes people from a group into a mob.c) they begin to head purposefully across the street toward the house at the end.d) the people stop as a group, seem to pause for a moment and then much more quietly and slowly start to walk across the street.