L Pretest Unit 2 T POINT
The Quakers are a religious group who believe that all Christians have access
to the word of Christ, not just priests and other clergy, which caused them to
be persecuted in the American colonies in the late 1600s. Arthur Miller's play,
The Crucible, takes place during this time. Read the following excerpt in
which Reverend Parris references Quakers in his argument with the main
character, John Proctor.
PROCTOR: I may speak my heart, I think!
PARRIS, in a fury. What, are we Quakers? We are not
Quakers here yet, Mr. Proctor.
Which of the following makes an inference based on historical context?
Parris's reaction suggests that he has a deen mietrust of

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)