1. (RI.1.2) PART A: Which of the following best describes the central idea of Passage 1? A. People gain just as much joy from buying temporary experiences as they do from buying lasting products.
B. People like buying experiences and products, but they gain more joy from the experiences they purchase than
the products.
C. People feel negatively about buying products and positively about buying experiences.
D. People gain more joy from buying experiences than buying products, but scientists have no explanation for why
this happens.

In the article who speaks for the 1% what do you think the author is real point of you on the economic crisis? what is he really satirizing? !

What does the morality play everyman say about fate and free will? develop a short response using examples from the text to support your answer.

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky