Read the excerpt from "A Thousand Years of Guessing." But making just one book like the Exeter Book often took years. Because it was dark inside the buildings and candles were expensive, monk-scribes sat outdoors in sheltered courtyards and copied entire manuscripts by hand. They used sheepskin parchment that they had scraped smooth, ink made from soot or oak bark boiled in vinegar, and quill pens that they constantly had to sharpen with little knives. The monks copied by hand about six hours a day, even when it was cold. And they had to keep silent while they worked.

Which detail from the excerpt best supports the inference that the creation of the Exeter Riddle Book was more important than the monks' comfort?

"They used sheepskin parchment that they had scraped smooth, ink made from soot or oak bark boiled in vinegar."

"The monks copied by hand about six hours a day, even when it was cold."

"Because it was dark inside the buildings and candles were expensive, monk-scribes sat outdoors in sheltered courtyards…"

"But making just one book like the Exeter Book often took years."

Who else did the prussian soldiers interact with other characters?

Which traits are strongest in your persuasive essay: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, or conventions?

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