A student wants to include the following quotation: "Normally, tusklessness would
occur only in about 2 to 4 percent of female African elephants."
The quote was found in an article titled "Under Poaching Pressure, Elephants Are
Evolving to Lose Their Tusks" written by Dina Fine Maron and published by National
Geographic. Which of the following would not be an appropriate way to include this
quotation in an essay?
A. The article "Under Poaching Pressure, Elephants Are Evolving to Lose Their
Tusks" states, "Normally tusklessness would occur only in about 2 to 4 percent
of female African elephants."
B. Writer Dina Fine Maron says, "Normally tusklessness would occur only in about
2 to 4 percent of female African elephants.
"C. Normally tusklessness would occur only in about 2 to 4 percent of female
African elephants."
"D. Normally tusklessness would occur only in about 2 to 4 percent of female
African elephants," researchers from National Geographic have found.

Which of these statements is evaluative in nature a) the short passage creates a brilliant and sketch of gabriel b) resulting from the fact that gabriel is observant, he is also reflective c) the way gabriel looks at his wife shows that he is a detached onlooker d) that gabriel is observant is evident from the minute details he notices

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”

What steps best a reader determine the central idea of a text? select three options.