Sarah stood staring at the whiteboard for an eternity. The class was over, and everyone had left for home. But, Sarah had lost the concept of time. She kept going back to the moment when she had overheard Betsy, her best friend, tell Raj that she had a crush on him. "Betsy! Oh, Betsy! Did you forget how I felt about him?" Sarah gave words to her thoughts and buried her head in her hands. She was a wilted flower losing all hopes of spring. She hated the fact that it was a beautiful day. Buds were continuing their blooming, and birds were happily chirping on the tree outside the classroom. "Not fair!" she uttered the choked up words and felt like hiding from the world forever. That was when she felt a gentle tap on her back.
"There you are! I kept looking for you everywhere, girl," Betsy said. "Why do you look like a broken piece of a violin?"
"I heard what you said to him," Sarah responded without facing Betsy. She felt bees stinging at her eyes and volcanoes erupting from her heart. Sarah had never felt betrayal so strongly.
"Then you should be dancing," Betsy said, confused. "Raj was asking me if you had asked anyone out to prom yet because he has like the biggest crush in the universe on you! And, I told him you were waiting for him to ask. Was I not supposed to say that?"
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From the way it is used in the story, choose the phrase that is most similar to "broken piece of a violin."
A.
physically bruised
B.
appearing destroyed
C.
repeating one note
D.
searching for a friend

Excerpt from 100% - the story of a patriot upton sinclair 10 so peter walked along, with his belt drawn tight, and his restless blue eyes wandering here and there, looking for a place to get a meal. there were jobs to be had, but they were hard jobs, and peter wanted an easy one. there are people in this world who live by their muscles, and others who live by their wits; peter belonged to the latter class; and had missed many a meal rather than descend in the social scale. 11 peter looked into the faces of everyone he passed, searching for a possible opening. some returned his glance, but never for more than a second, for they saw an insignificant looking man, undersized, undernourished, and with one shoulder higher than the other, a weak chin and mouth, crooked teeth, and a brown moustache too feeble to hold itself up at the corners. peters' straw hat had many straws missing, his second-hand brown suit was become third-hand, and his shoes were turning over at the sides. in a city where everybody was "hustling," everybody, as they phrased it, "on the make," why should anyone take a second glance at peter gudge? why should anyone care about the restless soul hidden inside him, or dream that peter was, in his own obscure way, a sort of genius? no one did care; no one did dream. 12 it was about two o'clock of an afternoon in july, and the sun beat down upon the streets of american city. there were crowds upon the streets, and peter noticed that everywhere were flags and bunting. once or twice he heard the strains of distant music, and wondered what was "up." peter had not been reading the newspapers; all his attention bad been taken up by the quarrels of the smithers faction and the lunk faction in the first apostolic church, otherwise known as the holy rollers, and great events that had been happening in the world outside were of no concern to him. peter knew vaguely that on the other side of the world half a dozen mighty nations were locked together in a grip of death; the whole earth was shaken with their struggles, and peter had felt a bit of the trembling now and then. but peter did not know that his own country had anything to do with this european quarrel, and did not know that certain great interests throughout the country had set themselves to rouse the public to action. based on the author's characterization of peter in paragraphs 10, 11, and 12, which word best describes him? a) industrious b) loyal c) patriotic d) poor