Read the passage, then answer the question. “A cool breeze came up behind us, sending shivers along the spines of the mesquite trees.” (THE BEAN TREES, A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver. Copyright © 1988 by Barbara Kingsolver. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.) What literary device is the author using? A. simile B. personification C. irony D. consonance

1. using support from your research materials, identify and explain any political, social, economic, or cultural issues that may shape the story. source: 2. imagine what it would be like to live in this situation. using supporting details from your research, discuss the greatest challenges people might face under these circumstances. sources: 3. based on your research, describe how these circumstances would affect a person’s identity development (crisis, commitment, diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, achievement). sources:

What statement best describes the central conflict in this passage from the diary of anne frank? because the franks are jewish and the van daans are not, the franks and the van daans do not get along. because they are jewish, the franks, the van daans, and mr. dussel are in hiding to avoid being discovered by the nazi party. anne does not discuss anything with her mother because she believes that her mother does not understand her. mr. and mrs. van daan argue because mrs. van daan does not think that mr. van daan has the right to sell her fur coat.

Buck did not cry out. he did not check himself, but drove in upon spitz, shoulder to shoulder, so hard that he missed the throat. they rolled over and over in the powdery snow. spitz gained his feet almost as though he had not been overthrown, slashing buck down the shoulder and leaping clear. twice his teeth clipped together, like the steel jaws of a trap, as he backed away for better footing, with lean and lifting lips that writhed and snarled. read this passage. explain what the conflict shows about buck and spitz.