The aspect of Abraham Lincoln that Sandburg reflects
• in this essay is Lincoln’s many-sided personality .

Lincoln was willing to “stick
[the Constitution] in a hole” because
• he believed it was necessary to violate the Constitution in order to save the Union.

• a principled and practical politician .

Sandburg describes Lincoln’s admission of Nevada to the
Union as
• manipulation because he wants to show that Lincoln used political means to gain his desired end.

Given that Sandburg’s A
Lincoln Preface is biographical,
• a purpose for reading it might be to learn about Abraham Lincoln’s life.

Sandburg’s biography of
Lincoln paints a picture of the president
• as a complex man who lived in a time of a grave crisis .

King’s intended effect in the speech “I Have a Dream”
• is to challenge people to improve the civil rights of all Americans

The speech “I Have a Dream” reveals that King
• was a leader who was deeply concerned about the future of black people.

The ending of “I Have a
Dream” evokes a strong feeling of
• hope and optimism.

The bus driver asks Rosa Parks to give up her seat because
• she is in the front of the “black section” and a white man doesn’t have a seat to sit in.

Rosa Parks explains “what kind of tired” she was
• so people will know she chose not to give up her seat.

The phrase that best describes the workers mentioned in “I Hear America
Singing”
• is people working hard and being satisfied by their work.

The theme, or message, that
Whitman conveys in “I Hear
America Singing”
• is America is the sum of different contributions from many people .

The best description of Chief
Dan George’s idea of new Native
American warriors
• is the new warriors will have skills that give them a sense of worth and purpose .

The Mandarin’s daughter gives advice from behind a screen
• because she does not want her father to appear weak by openly receiving advice from a woman .

The townspeople become weak or ill and many
• die in response to rebuilding the wall over and over again.

The immediate consequences of the meeting between the
Mandarin and Kwan-Si
• is they agree to the solution to the problem that the daughter suggests.

The daughter helps her father and Kwan-Si see the solution
• to the problem by taking them outside to see how kites and the wind go together.

A reader can determine the moral of a fable when the moral
• is not stated directly in the fable by examining the actions and choices of the characters.

The element of fantasy that is essential to
• “Old Man of the Temple” is the narrator’s encounter with a ghost .

The narrator describes
• Doss as well-behaved and obedient .

When Doss speaks in a “thin, piping” voice, it is
• because Doss has been transformed into the old man .

This story is a fantasy
• because it contains elements that could not really happen .

The most likely inference to be drawn from the scene where the old man
• sees his dead wife coming toward him is that the
• old man’s spirit has called his wife’s spirit to him.

The old man falls to the ground in a heap when he sees his wife.
• From this we can infer that the old man’s spirit
• leaves Doss’s body to join his wife’s spirit.

The ghost of Krishna Battar
• has been knocking on the family’s door.

The most likely inference to be drawn from the absence
• of knocking sounds at the temple doors is that the old man’s spirit has gone to the afterlife .

In “Perseus,” King Acrisius confines his daughter
• to an underground house because he wants to make certain she has no children .

When Danaë and the infant
Perseus are adrift in the great chest,
• it seems reasonable to assume they will escape
• because the myth’s hero will likely survive .

The true father of Perseus
• is the god Zeus .

As Perseus grows up, Danaë allows him to become
• a fisherman on the little island because
• Acrisius cannot know where he is.

Polydectes invites Perseus to his wedding celebration
• in order to take advantage of the youth’s embarrassment .

Athena gave Perseus her brilliantly polished shield
• because it would spare Perseus from looking at Medusa and thus prevent him from turning to stone .

Hermes and Athena didn’t give
Perseus all he needed to attack Medusa
• because Perseus had to prove his daring with the Gray Women first.

Perseus probably could not have defeated Medusa without supernatural assistance
• because he could not have found her, looked at her, or pierced her scales.

In the world of mythology, a sure way to draw the wrath of the gods
• is to proclaim mortal superiority over a god.

When Komunyakaa says the boys were “Glistening with sweat,”
• the image provides a precise picture of the players.

When Komunyakaa writes of the players driving to the basket and gliding “like a sparrow hawk,”
• he suggests the grace of flight in the players’ moves. He might have selected a sparrow hawk
• for this image rather than a dove because sparrow hawks use quick, aggressive moves and doves do not.

The first two lines of “The
Spearthrower” by Lillian
Morrison are “She walks alone / to the edge of the park.”
• The woman is alone because women interested in athletics have often been ignored .

In “The Spearthrower,” the line
“her quick laps” demonstrate
Morrison’s theme about
• women’s athletics. By using the word
“her,” it emphasizes that the
“runner” is a woman because most readers might assume “runner” means a man .

In “Shoulders,” the man is carrying “sensitive cargo”
• so carefully crossing the street because the cargo is his son .

In “Shoulders,” the line “His ear fills up with breathing” creates the sense
• of what it feels like to have a child asleep on your shoulder.

Good Luck Study Hard
Prepare carefully
Don’t forget to have fun.