Read the excerpt from The Canterbury Tales. Dear brethren, God forgive you your trespass,
And keep you from the sin of avarice;
My holy pardon here can save you all,
And will, so long as you make offerings
Of gold and silver coin, spoons, brooches, rings—
Bow down your heads before this holy bull!
Come, ladies, make an offering of your wool!
I’ll put your name down on my prayer-roll,
And you shall enter to the bliss of heaven

Which statement best describes the satire in the excerpt?

Chaucer criticizes the practice of confessing one’s sins to a priest.
Chaucer criticizes the notion that divine forgiveness depends on giving money.
Chaucer criticizes the idea that people go to heaven after death.
Chaucer criticizes the fact that clergymen earn more than peasants.

Which sentence accurately describes elements of historical fiction?

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Read this inference: "one day the neighbors will move out of the little frame house." what detail from the story best supports this inference?