Question 8 (2 points) Why does the narrator "In Another Country" feel he is not a "hawk," like some of the
others?
a) He doesn't speak their language and feels isolated from everyone else.
b) He is not Italian.
O c) His injury is not as severe as everyone else's.
d) He earned his medal mostly based on the fact he was an American helping
the Italians fight, while others actually earned medals for their valor.

Read this excerpt from "birdfoot's grampa.” but, leathery hands full of wet brown life, knee deep in the summer roadside grass, he just smiled and said they have places to go to too. based on the excerpt, what will readers most likely infer about grampa? a he is accepting of his grandson’s ignorance. b he is irritated by his grandson’s impatience. c he believes he will not be able to save all the toads. d he believes his grandson should not talk back.

Although william carlos williams rejected traditional verse forms he still believed that is was important to use poetic devices to distinguish verse from prose.

Skill check questions rearrange the paragraphs below into the correct sequence. that's because engineers on the ultraclean project have invented a self-cleaning, antibacterial metal surface that repels water with an intricate layer of laser-engraved valleys. when it rains, the lotus does not become damp; the water simply trickles off in fat droplets, taking any bugs and dirt with it. the drudgery may not be around much longer, however, if a team of italian scientists has anything to do with it “it's simply an amazing plant,” concluded professor luca romoli, leader of the project, “and we've succeeded in mimicking it. magnifico! ” few tasks in life hold less joy than scrubbing the ghost of somebody else’s porridge from a saucepan. the starting point for the research was the leaves of the lotus flower.