"i am home, for i am he,
i bore adversities, but in the twentieth year
i am ashore in my own land, i find
the two of you, alone among my people,
longed for my coming. prayers i never heard
except your own that i might come again."
what does the word adversities suggest?
o hostile messages delivered to enrage enemies
extremely unfavorable events that cause hardship
important evidence used to defend against enemies
predictions about events one may experience

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.

The students who were in favor of adopting the new curriculum wrote editorials for their local newspaper which of these best describes how the information in the editoralw is different from the information in the feature story

Who did kipling think would read his poem? what do you think that this audience might have said in response to it?