Read this excerpt from king arthur's socks: a comedy in one act. guenevere: (smiling) my husband? are you afraid of him, mary? what does the stage direction reveal about guenevere? a. she is being coy to gain mary’s trust. b. she considers arthur to be harmless. c. she is intensely curious about mary’s news. d. she harbors fears about her husband’s behavior.

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.