The reading passage name is VILLAGE SCHOOLS AND TRAVELING SOLDIERS on commonlit. 4. PART A: What does the word “gross” most closely mean as it is used in Paragraph 1?
A. Largely unacceptable
B. Muddy or dirty
C. Nauseating
D. Undiscovered 5.

PART B: Which phrase from the text best supports the answer to Part A?
A. “The object of Chinese education is to pump up the wisdom of the ancients into the minds of the moderns.” (Paragraph 1)
B. “a school which should only be in session for six months of the year” (Paragraph 1)
C. “The moment a child fails to attend school, he is supposed (and with reason) to become ‘wild.’” (Paragraph 1)
D. “The territory to be traversed is so vast” (Paragraph 2)

Diego rivera was a famous artist from mexico. most of his paintings were murals. murals are paintings that are made directly on a wall. rivera thought that all people should be able to see beautiful art, not just people who could afford to go to museums. this is why he painted most of his murals on the walls of public buildings

Read the sentence. the judge stated that “the court cannot superimpose its opinion over the opinion of the jury.” what does superimpose mean? a) to take away b) to ignore c) to place over d) to combine

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification