Item 4 Refer to the article "Harun al-Rashid & One Thousand and One Nights." Which two details support the central idea that Harun al-Rashid was an extremely rich and learned ruler? "Libraries sprouted in cities across the caliphate, including the wonderfully named House of Wisdom in Baghdad, which al-Rashid helped found." "…during al-Rashid's rule, the Islamic world began to experience an explosion of cultural and intellectual growth." "…al-Rashid was the second son of his father, al-Mahdi, an important political leader." "…al-Rashid became the caliph -- or ruler -- of an Islamic state whose capital was the city of Baghdad."

Which inference can a reader make based on the information in the excerpt?

What does the author see as the main cause for why students don’t really see shakespeare as a real, flawed human being? we shouldn’t shy away from discussing our literary heroes’ flaws. if nothing else, the knowledge of their failures us appreciate what success and greatness these authors did achieve. often our hero-worship keeps us from truly seeing the complexity of a great author. thus, i would argue, nothing would be better for high school students than to take shakespeare down a peg or two. a) the fact that students never learn enough about shakespeares biography b) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s comedies while in school c) the fact that students are never assigned to read any shakespeare while in high school d) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s greatest works in school and thus never see his weaknesses

Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. read the following excerpt from the novel "oliver twist" by charles dickens. although oliver had been brought up by philosophers, he was not theoretically acquainted with the beautiful axiom that self-preservation is the first law of nature. if he had been, perhaps he would have been prepared for this. not being prepared, however, it alarmed him the more; so away he went