Read the passage from a doll’s house. helmer: to desert your home, your husband and your children! and you don't consider what people will say! nora: i cannot consider that at all. i only know that it is necessary for me. helmer: it's shocking. this is how you would neglect your most sacred duties. read the passage from a room of one’s own. that refuge she would have sought certainly. it was the relic of the sense of chastity that dictated anonymity to women even so late as the nineteenth century. currer bell, george eliot, george sand, all the victims of inner strife as their writings prove, sought ineffectively to veil themselves by using the name of a man. thus they did homage to the convention, which if not implanted by the other sex was liberally encouraged by them (the chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said pericles, himself a much-talked-of man), that publicity in women is detestable. what theme is explored in both passages? women are strong and do need the support of men. raising children is a woman’s most important job. women are expected to be invisible in society. women should take pride in caring for children.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. but it is in india, where it was used as an offering in religious and magical ceremonies, that we have the first written record of sugar. long before the first pyramids were built in egypt, the ancient sumerians traded with the people of harappa and mohenjo daro, who lived along the indus river. unfortunately, we are still not able to read the writings left behind from those ancient cities. so the first documents telling us about life in that region come from a much later period. these hindu sacred teachings were probably first gathered together sometime between 1500 and 900 b.c., and were carefully memorized. only hundreds of years later were they finally written down. the hindu writings tell us of a religion in which fire was extremely important. people believed that the gods gave fire to human beings. yet fire was also a way for humans to reach the gods. by placing offerings in a special fire, a priest could turn them into smoke and send them on to the gods. five ingredients were selected for this special burning: milk, cheese, butter, honey, and sugar cane. which details would best fit in a summary of this passage? select two options. "in india . . it was used as an offering in religious and magical ceremonies" "the first written record of sugar" "long before the first pyramids were built in egypt" "gods gave fire to human beings" "a priest could turn them into smoke and send them on to the gods"