Read the excerpt below and answer the question. this is no deception sent by queen persephone, this is just the way of mortals when we die. sinews no longer bind the flesh and bones together – the spirit rustling, flitters away flown like a dream. who says the above quote and why? anticleia is explaining why odysseus cannot embrace her. agamemnon is explaining that he is real. elpenor is asking odysseus to give him a proper burial. tiresias is explaining why he needs blood to tell the truth.

In hard times by charles dickens, mr. gradgrind is depicted as protective and respectful rigid and narrow-minded innovative and ambitious worldly and clever

Read this excerpt from holes. he had no sailing experience, but the ship’s captain signed him aboard. the captain could see that elya was a man of great strength. not everybody could carry a full-grown pig up the side of a mountain. it wasn’t until the ship had cleared the harbor and was heading out across the atlantic that he suddenly remembered his promise to carry madame zeroni up the mountain. he felt terrible. what information does this flashback provide about elya? a.elya did not intend to break his promise to madame zeroni. b.madame zeroni is very angry and disappointed in elya. c.elya is terribly afraid of madame zeroni’s curse. d.elya does not care what happened to madame zeroni.

The following question is based on your reading of a midsummer night’s dream by william shakespeare. why does puck transform bottom? a. to disrupt the play. c. to scare the mechanicals. b. for revenge on theseus. d. to scare the lovers.