The boy who cried wolf
traditional fable

1) look at the blank with the number 14 in the passage. which of these answers correctly completes the sentence?
a) keep
b) keeped
c) keeping
d) kept

2) look at the blank with the number 12 in the passage. which of these answers correctly completes the sentence?
a) ran
b) ranned
c) run
d) runned

3) look at the blank with the number 7 in the passage. which of these answers correctly completes the sentence?
a) have catched
b) had caughten
c) could of caught
d) could have caught

4) look at the blank with the number 8 in the passage. which of these answers correctly completes the sentence?
a) run
b) had run
c) have run
d) had runned

What point is the author trying to make by comparing the travel times of the first transcontinental railroad and the first transcontinental flight?

How do to my dear loving husband and to the kings most excellent majesty's reflect cultural values of their time

Which two lines in this excerpt from arthur conan doyle's "the contest" suggest that emperor nero was ruthless? each choice is in brackets. [an hour later the shepherd was well on his way to his mountain home, and about the same time the emperor, having received the chaplet of olympia for the incomparable excellence of his performance, was making inquiries with a frowning brow as to who the insolent person might be who had dared to utter such contemptuous criticisms.] [“bring him to me here this instant,” said he, “and let marcus with his knife and branding-iron be in attendance.”] [“rumours! ” cried the angry nero. “what do you mean, arsenius? i tell you that the fellow was an ignorant upstart, with the bearing of a boor and the voice of a peacock.] [i have half a mind to burn their town about their ears so that they may remember my visit.”] [“i conquered! you are mad, arsenius. what do you mean? ”] [it is whispered that for once the great god pan has condescended to measure himself against a mortal.”]