Question 1.) At the end of chapter 39, Tom writes a "nonnamous" letter to the Phelps family. His letter is full of slang and colloquialisms. Write an essay of at least 150 words (in standard English) based on this letter, explaining what Tom wants the family to believe and clarifying any language that needs to be explained.
Question 2.) In chapters 36–39, the theme of appearance versus reality comes up repeatedly. It often represents a clue about the differences between Tom and Huck. In chapter 36, Tom is trying to figure out how to get various items to Jim. In at least fifty words, summarize Tom's approach to this situation, Huck's suggestion, and Tom's response. Explain what both tell us about these characters.

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man