Teachers who were concerned about students’ safety or who disapproved of their playing hooky tried to bar classroom doors. "A number of teachers told us we were wrong,” Arnetta said, "that we were breaking laws, and we were putting our parents’ jobs in jeopardy.” But, her favorite teachers, Miss Woolfolk and Mrs. Cleopatra Goree, turned around and looked at the blackboard as if they didn’t notice the students leaving their classrooms.

The direct quote is included to help readers understand

A how qualified the teachers of the school were.
B how strongly many of the teachers opposed the children’s march.
C that many of the teachers supported the protest.
D that many teachers did not notice when the students left.

What do mcmahon’s references to thomas carlyle and john stuart mill do for his own image and credibility?

Select the correct text in the passage. which two lines in this excerpt from shakespeare's romeo and juliet foreshadow the tragic fate of romeo and juliet? friar laurence: so smile the heavens upon this holy act, that after hours with sorrow chide us not! romeo: amen, amen! but come what sorrow can, it cannot countervail the exchange of joy that one short minute gives me in her sight: do thou but close our hands with holy words, then love-devouring death do what he dare; it is enough i may but call her mine. friar laurence: these violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite: therefore love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Select the correct answer to which literary movement did ambrose bierce belong? a.romanticism b.realism c.naturalism d.neoclassicism