Read the passage. The spectators could not avert their attention from the gripping action on the basketball court. They were fixated on the two star players as they began a fast break that led to the winning basket, with less than a second remaining on the clock. Which words in the passage are clues to the meaning of avert? Select all that apply.
fixated
gripping
fast break
star players

Read these sentences from the excerpt: i would sometimes say to them, i wished i could be as free as theywould be when they got to be men. "you will be free as soon as you aretwenty-one, but i am a slave for life! have not l as good a right to befree as you have? how does the use of a rhetorical question advance the author's purposeof showing that all people deserve freedom? it shows the reader that douglass is unsure of hisstatements.it indicates that douglass believes he deserves freedom.oit demonstrates that douglass is questioning his beliefs.it reminds the reader that some questions areunanswerable

According to scholasticism, truth is god's?

Explain what the text says explicitly. reread paragraph 2 of "civil peace." what does this paragraph reveal about jonathan and his family's circumstances? cite textual evidence to support your response.