Read this excerpt from The People Could Fly There was a son named Anton. He dreamed that a girl placed a handkerchief over his face. He woke up but he saw no one. Anton told his mother what he had dreamed. His mother said, "Anton, you've dreamed of something enchanted."

A few days later Anton dreamed the dream again and it was exactly the same: A girl placed a handkerchief over his face.

"Anton," his mother said, "you dream of a girl who lives with her father in the tower of the moon."

How does the plot influence characterization in this excerpt?

The exposition introduces Anton as a fortune teller.
The exposition introduces Anton’s mother as a fanciful woman.
The rising action shows Anton facing the challenges of finding the tower.
The rising action shows Anton’s mother reacting to Anton’s travels.

Which values of the ancient greeks are most emphasized in the excerpt?

What functions as a reflexive pronoun in the sentence the professor herself wanted to attend the conference, but it was cancelled when she and several other presenters had to excuse themselves

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.