Read the excerpt below and answer the question. “utter it, jane: but i wish that instead of a mere inquiry into, perhaps, a secret, it was a wish for half my estate." "now, king ahasuerus! what do i want with half your estate? ” (chapter 24) which of the following best describes the meaning of the allusion to king ahasuerus? that jane does not expect to share rochester's wealth equally. that rochester has an unstable personality. that jane values virtue and justice over wealth. that rochester's destiny is in jane's hands.

Agood persuasive essay topic cannot be a. a fact b. debatable c. something somebody else has already written about

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.

Which word in this excerpt from act i, scene i, of richard iii means “to listen”