Chapter 22 Boys in the boat

1. Although Washington won the Olympic trials, a last minute problem could have kept them at home. What happened?

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2. Why did hitler not want Germany to host the 1936 Olympic’s? What made him change his mind?

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3. When the team arrived in Germany, they towed very poorly. What was happening?

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4. After the United States won their heat, Ulbrickson expected they would have a favorable lane for the medal race. What happened?

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What lesson did joe learn from competing in the Olympics?

Identify two instances of figurative language from the fourth stasimon of "oedipus the king" and explain what they mean and why they are significant.

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

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