At university I did post-graduate work in marine geology at the University of Hawaii. To help pay my expenses I worked as a porpoise trainer at Sea Life Park. I spent hours teaching dolphins to dive through hoops and perform other tricks. —Exploring the Titanic, Robert D. Ballard Based on the context clues in the passage, a porpoise is most likely a type of
marine geology
job
hoop
dolphin

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

Read this passage from "the american dream." it does not say all white men, but it says all men. . how does the second part of the sentence relate to the first part?

This passage contains repeated allusions to all the following except. a.sailing b.suitors c.hunting d.dreams