PLEASE FAST Assessment Questions
1. Which of the following best describes a central idea of the passage?
a. Benedict Arnold's betrayal has been misunderstood and exaggerated in US history.
b. Benedict Arnold was the most loyal patriot to the American colonies before his betrayal.
c. Lack of appreciation and credit for his military career was one of the driving forces behind
Benedict Arnold's change of loyalties.
d. Peggy Shippen, Arnold's wife, is mainly to blame for his treason.
2. Which of the following quotes best supports your answer to question #1?
a "He built himself into a genuine war hero, then died penniless in exile from the country he once
loved." (paragraph 1)
b. "An intensely loyal and brave man, he made a brilliant battlefield commander..." (paragraph 2)
C. "The more he learned about Peggy, the more Arnold discovered that she had many powerful
pro-British friends and was really an enemy of American independence. Thus began the spiral
for Benedict Arnold..." (paragraph 18)
d. "His bitterness about being ignored, passed over for promotions, and relegated to military

“thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more.”

“hath taught me to set in trifles no store,”

“me lusteth no longer rotten boughs to climb.”

english novelist and poet, the eldest of the three brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of english literature.

she enlisted in school at roe head in january 1831, aged 14 years. she left the year after to teach her sisters, emily and anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. in 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to haworth where the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. instead they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of currer, ellis and acton bell. her first novel the professor was rejected by publishers, her second novel jane eyre was published in 1847. the sisters admitted to their bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in london literary circles.

brontë experienced the early deaths of all her siblings. she became pregnant shortly after her marriage in june 1854 but died on 31 march 1855, almost certainly from hyperemesis gravidarum, a complication of pregnancy which causes excessive nausea and vomiting.

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