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In "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," Simon Wheeler implies that Andrew Jackson, the fighting dog, gives up in his last fight because of which factor?

A broken spirit after being tricked.

What does the author of "A Literature of Place" most clearly feel that a sense of place helps a person develop?

A feeling of belonging and a sense of identity.

As explained in "The Leap" what causes the circus disaster in which Harry Avalon dies?

A lightning bolt.

To answer an email instantaneously, what must you do?

Answer immediately.

How does a stranger cheat Smiley out of a bet on his frog in "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"?

By filing Smileys frog with lead shot.

As explained in "What You Don't Know Can Kill You," how do people generally assess risks in their lives?

By using a combination of rules of thumb and instinctual feelings that often overrules logic

Which of the following choices best describes Jim Smiley in "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"?

Clever and competitive.

The word down has several meanings. Use context clues to determine the most likely meaning of down as it is used in this excerpt from "What You Don't Know Can Kill You."

Consume.

Which of the following responses is most likely to occur when something is tedious?

Eye rolling and yawning.

The narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" chuckles at the old man's fear. What does this response most likely suggest about the narrator?

He is cruel.

After the narrators mother in "The Leap" is injured in the accident, why is the narrators father called to the hospital to help her? Which of these excerpts from "The Leap" best supports the answer to Part A"

He is familiar with treating her sort of injury. [H]e was something of an armchair traveler and had spent his war quietly, at an air force training grounds, where he became a specialist in arms and legs broken during parachute training exercises.

At the end of "The Tell-Tale Heart," why does the narrator finally confess to the murder?

He thinks that the officers hear the old man's heartbeat and are mocking him.

According to "What You Don't Know Can Kill You," what truly dangerous risks do people face but usually refuse to acknowledge? Choose two options.

Heart disease and Automobile crashes

What is it about the old man that scares and angers the narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart"?

His clouded blue eye.

Which of the following actions best shows hospitality?

Inviting new neighbors to dinner.

Which question might a reader of the following excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart" most reasonably ask?

Is the narrator possibly insane?

Near the end of "A Literature of Place," what view does the author most clearly express about humanity's survival?

It depends on a relationship with the natural world.

In "A White Heron,' what does the young man intend to do with the white heron if he finds it?

Kill it and preserve it for study.

In "A White Heron," how does the young man come to stay with Sylvia and her grandmother?

Lost in the woods, he sees Sylvia as she drives the cow home, and he asks if he can stay the night.

What is most likely the meaning of acute as it is used in this excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart"? Base your answer on context. The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.

More intense than usual.

As the author of "A Literature of Place" suggests, how do sensory perceptions help a person understand a particular landscape?

Perceptions involving sight, sound, smell, and touch all provide different elements of a landscape.

From the context, choose the most likely meaning of cognitive as it is used in this excerpt from "What You Don't Know Can Kill You."

Related to thinking.

In "The Leap," which of the following seem especially important to the narrators mother after her second marriage?"

Sewing and reading.

In "The Leap," what does the narrator suggest is the main reason that her mother, now blind from cataracts, can still safely negotiate her New Hampshire home?

She was once part of a blindfold trapeze act.

In "A Literature of Place," what aspect of a language seemed most magical to the author as a child?

The discovery that words could be written down.

In "What You Don't Know Can Kill You," the author makes the claim that we "virtually ignore the true risks that inhabit our world." He offers this example: Drowning ... takes 3,400 lives a year, without a single frenzied call for mandatory life vests to stop the carnage. Which information would most clearly strengthen the author's point in this sentence?

The percentage of drownings in which mandatory life jackets could have saved lives.

The narrator of "The Leap" describes walking to a gravesite just down the highway when she was growing up. Who is buried in the gravesite?

The unborn daughter whom her mother lost in the circus disaster.

What does the author of "What You Don't Know Can Kill You" see in spreading the truth about risk?

The wrong message might get out and cause more harm than good.

In "A White Heron," what is Sylvia's main reason for climbing the pine-tree?

To find the white herons nest

The word fancy has several meanings. Based on its context, decide which is most likely the meaning of fancy in this excerpt from "The Tell-Tale Heart." I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise, when he had turned in the bed. His fears had been ever since growing upon him. He had been trying to fancy them causeless, but could not. He had been saying to himself—"It is nothing but the wind in the chimney—it is only a mouse crossing the floor," or "it is merely a cricket which has made a single chirp."

To imagine something.

After an internal stuggle, what does Sylvia utimately decide to do at the end of "The White Heron"?

To keep secret the location of the white herons nest

After murdering the old man, where does the narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" hide the body?

Under the floorboards.

How does "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" end?

Wheeler starts another Smiley story that the narrator does not stay to hear.

If your discern something on the horizon, what must be true?

You recognize it clearly.