Why might the ski information be identified as off topic? Select one: a. It is about a sport, not snow. b. It is incorrect because wet snow is best for skiing. c. It does not directly prove that dry snow is bad for sculptures and snowballs. d. It is too personal and this essay needs to be more formal.

What does the term fiend not mean as it is used in the passage? a) beast b) brute c) fanatic d) savage

In “we wear the mask,” which message is conveyed by dunbar’s repetition of the phrase “we wear the mask”?

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia