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1. As described in the selection from Life on the Mississippi, what did the Mississippi River represent to Twain as a boy?
A. A destructive force
B. A wonder of nature
C. A pathway to adventure
D. A chance to make friends

In hard times by charles dickens, mr. gradgrind’s name can be interpreted in several ways. the selection supports all of the following interpretations except he grinds out graduates who are similar to each other as if he were running a factory he grinds the importance of facts into students’ heads he grinds down children by crushing their imaginations he grinds his teeth together, suggesting his intolerance for fantasy

Is the sentence “ironically, although approximately seventy-one percent of the earth is covered by water, thirty-three percent of its land area is desert.” a phrase or a clause?

The pilgrims are at in the beginning of the prologue.