To MEASURE the difficulty of the science experiment, Dr. Kitts and Dr. Hughes had to look over all the factors that would affect it. They wanted to figure out what chemicals made up the latest plastic. To conduct the experiment, they had to make sure that each piece of the equipment could withstand the activity that was going to happen. In addition, Dr. Kitts checked if they had enough of the material to get all of the information necessary from it. After all of this, Dr. Kitts and Dr. Hughes determined that they were finally prepared for the rigors of the experiment. Based on the context of the passage, what is the meaning of the word measure?

A.
assess the quality of something

B.
adjust something for effect

C.
be a particular size or length

D.
control with cautious restraint

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man