Read the following paragraph.
manny is writing a paper about whether violence in video games makes kids more violent. he found a news article about violence in video games on a national news organization’s .com website. the article seemed to be objective and the news organization is well known. on the website, readers are allowed to post comments about the article. one reader posted a comment with a lot of information that she claimed proved that violent video games do not make kids more violent. manny thinks that the information in this reader’s comment might be in his paper.
which statement is the best evaluation of the reader’s comment as a source of information?
a. the reader’s comment is a credible source because it was posted in response to an objective article.
b. the reader’s comment is a credible source because it was posted on a trusted website.
c. the reader’s comment is not a credible source because nothing is known about the person who wrote the comment.
d. the reader’s comment is not a credible source because the website it was found on is not credible.

Complete the sentence. when trying to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word, you should first replace the unfamiliar word with a synonym that you identified based on the context clues. remove the unfamiliar word from the sentence. think of an antonym for the unfamiliar word. look for context clues that indicate the word's meaning.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.

The triumph of night, toward the end if the story , starting on page 5 faxon encounters a man in furs whta function does fcxons interaction with this character serve?