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ZOOM
COMMONLIT
Text-Dependent Questions
Directions: For the following questions, choose the best answer or respond in complete sentences.
1.
What is the central idea of the text?
A Workers should find new ways to honor the Labor Day holiday.
B The history of Labor Day is no longer celebrated with worker parades.
C С The history of Labor Day has been forgotten but it is still an important holiday.
D Workers have fair working conditions so we should scrap the Labor Day holiday.
Which detail from

In this excerpt from "dover beach" by matthew arnold, which two lines or sets of lines suggest that the speaker has undergone a loss of faith? the sea of faith was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. but now i only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, retreating, to the breath of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear and naked shingles of the world. ah, love, let us be true to one another! for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain; and we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night.

In the story "a very old man with enormous wings", why does the young girl get changed into a spider?

Her brother joined the army before he finished college. identify the adverb clause in the sentence. a) finished college b) her brother joined c) brother joined the army d) before he finished college