1.)Which of the following choices best explains how the players feel about girls watching them (lines 18-19)? A. It makes them feel extremely powerful.
B. It distracts them from the game.
C. It keeps them from worrying about their outside problems.
D. It makes them very nervous and they would rather just play alone.

2.) The following passage (lines 24-26) adds to the development of the poem mainly by fill in the blank_.
A. explaining that some matters are so serious that they have no connection to basketball
B. suggesting that the lives of some of the players might be less than ideal
C. explaining why Sonny Boy stopped playing basketball
D. referring to a Greek god who was most famous for losing his mother as a child

3.) Which of the following conclusions is best supported by the speaker’s memories?
A. The boys were just beginning to realize the extent of their power on the court.
B. The most important thing the boys learned playing basketball was fundamentals.
C. The girls had the potential to be even better at basketball than the boys.
D. Basketball always left the boys wanting more.

because it's a cool name

explanation:

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

no plagarism

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there is no paragraph seven here.