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In the novel, Wharton illustrates the protagonist Lily Bart's growing dependence on a sleeping drug, noting that she views it as a source of relief despite her anxiety that its efficacy is fading    \nWhich quotation from The House of Mirth most effectively illustrates the claim?  \nHe let it be felt that that intimacy was a mere ripple on the surface of a rushing social current.  \nSelden... paused to scan the ranks of diners approaching down the brightly lit terrace.  \nA cup of tea in quiet, somewhere out of the noise and ugliness, seemed for the moment the one solace she could bear.  \nThe thought of the chloral was the only spot of light... But she was troubled by the thought that it was losing its power.  \nQuestion 2  \nThe following text is from Mark Twain's 1884 novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In this passage, Huckleberry Finn describes meeting up with Tom Sawyer and other boys near the river at night.  \nWell, when Tom and me got to the edge of the hill-top we looked away down into the village and could see three or four lights twinkling, where there was sick folks, maybe; and the stars over us was sparkling ever so fine; and down by the village was the river, a whole mile broad, and awful still and grand. We went down the hill and found Jo Harper and Ben Rogers, and two or three more of the boys, hid in the old tanyard.  \nAccording to the text, what does the narrator observe about the river?  \n It is filled with boats and activity.  \n It is surprisingly narrow near the village.  \n It is rough and dangerous to cross.  \n It is very wide and appears calm.  \nQuestion 3  \nThe Awakening is an 1899 novel by Kate Chopin. In the novel, Chopin depicts the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, as someone who occasionally directs her energy toward organizing her physical environment, writing   .  \nWhich quotation from The Awakening most effectively illustrates the claim?  \n \"Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again; idly, aimlessly, unthinking and unguided.\"  \n \"Madame Lebrun was bustling in and out, giving orders in a high key toa yard-boy whenever she got inside the house.\"  \n \"The coffee and the biscuit accompanying it proved very acceptable to Edna, who had declined refreshment at Madame Lebrun’s.\"  \n \"She began to set the toilet-stand to rights, grumbling at the negligence of the quadroon.\"  \nQuestion 4  \nThe following text is from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem To William Shelley. The speaker is reflecting on the memory of his young son who has passed away.  \nThe billows on the beach are leaping around it,  \nThe bark is weak and frail,  \nThe sea looks black, and the clouds that bound it  \nDarkly strew the gale.  \nThy little footsteps on the sands  \nOf a remote and lonely shore;  \nThe twinkling of thine infant hands,  \nWhere now the worm will feed no more;Thy mingled look of love  and glee  \nWhen we returned to gaze on thee--  \nWhich choice best describes the function of the underlined lines in the text as a whole?  \nA) They suggest that the child was frightened by the storm described in the earlier lines.  \nB) They describe a specific, fond memory of the child’s happy reaction to seeing the speaker.  \nC) They emphasize the dangerous conditions of the sea and the isolation of the shore.  \nD) They offer a prediction about the future success the child would have achieved in adulthood.  \nQuestion 5  \nSong is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley. In the poem, Shelley contrasts the harshness of the natural world with human cruelty, suggesting that the betrayal by a loved one is more painful than the freezing cold of winter, writing    \nWhich quotation from Song most effectively illustrates the claim?  \nCold, cold is the blast when December is howling,  \nCold are the damps on a dying man's brow  \nShe said nothing, but wringing the wet from her hair, Crossed the dark mountain side, though the hour it was late. 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