Read the passage.

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As you know, the position for which you are applying requires superlative problem-solving skills in a variety of arenas, and the ability to think critically on the fly is essential. To evaluate your ability in this area, the practical portion of the interview process consists of a series of locked-room puzzles. You will need to use all of your ingenuity to find the key to unlocking each room. There are six rooms total; four of the rooms will have individual time limits, while the remaining two rooms will be untimed. You will be observed by the interview team from a remote location, and your progress through the rooms will be recorded.

Which statement best reflects how the language in this passage serves the author’s purpose?

A. It allows the author to reveal his or her true feelings about the interview process and the candidate.

B. It allows the author to provide subtle hints about how to impress the interview team.

C. It allows the author to deliver details about the interview in a way that is casual and comforting.

D. It allows the author to convey information clearly in a formal and professional way.

The major was a little man with upturned mustaches. he had been in the war in libya and wore two wound-stripes. he said that if the thing went well he would see that i was decorated. i said i hoped it would go well but that he was too kind. i asked him if there was a big dugout where the drivers could stay and he sent a soldier to show me. i went with him and found the dugout, which was very good. the drivers were with it and i left them there. what effect does hemingway’s limited use of adjectives have? it slows down the narration by interrupting the action. it makes the few descriptive words he does use more vivid and forceful. it makes the narrator seem powerless and insincere. it prevents the readers from filling in the details with their own experiences.

What do we call a two-syllable metrical foot that consists of one unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable? a. anapest b.dactyl c.iamb d.elision

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant