Elizabeth blackwell listened to her friend’s unusual advice. he said that she should disguise herself as a man if she wanted to study and become a doctor! it was 1845, and only men attended med the following question has two parts. first, answer part a. then, answer part b. part a: how did elizabeth respond to the obstacles she faced at the medical college? a. she kept trying even when people opposed her. b. she became friendly with her classmates. c. she studied longer than her classmates in order to graduate. d. she tried to prove she was the smartest student in the class. part b: which sentence from the text best supports your answer in part a? a. “at the college, elizabeth concentrated on her studies.” b. “when professors told her a woman should not witness certain operations, she wrote letters to convince them otherwise.” c. “as the weeks passed, elizabeth’s fellow students grew to respect and admire their hardworking classmate.” d. “two years later, elizabeth graduated at the top of her class.”

Read the passage from animal farm. one sunday morning squealer announced that the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs. napoleon had accepted, through whymper, a contract for four hundred eggs a week. the price of these would pay for enough grain and meal to keep the farm going till summer came on and conditions were easier. when the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry. they had been warned earlier that this sacrifice might be necessary, but had not believed that it would really happen. they were just getting their clutches ready for the spring sitting, and they protested that to take the eggs away now was murder. for the first time since the expulsion of jones, there was something resembling a rebellion. led by three young black minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart napoleon's wishes. their method was to fly up to the rafters and there lay their eggs, which smashed to pieces on the floor. napoleon acted swiftly and ruthlessly. he ordered the hens' rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. the dogs saw to it that these orders were carried out. for five days the hens held out, then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes. nine hens had died in the meantime. their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died of coccidiosis. whymper heard nothing of this affair, and the eggs were duly delivered, a grocer's van driving up to the farm once a week to take them away. which detail from the passage supports the claim that this is an allegory for the great purge? the hens holding out for five days but capitulating the eggs being delivered to the grocer the protesting hens being intentionally starved coccidiosis spreading on the farm

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. she was a small woman, short and straight-waisted like a child in her brown cotton gown. her forehead was mild and benevolent between the smooth curves of gray hair; there were meek downward lines about her nose and mouth; but her eyes, fixed upon the old man, looked as if the meekness had been the result of her own will, never of the will of another. in at least one hundred words, explain how this excerpt uses explicit and implicit details to describe sarah penn.

What is sue’s reaction to her phone call