Read the excerpt below from a tree grows in brooklyn and answer the question that follows. after the exercises, the turkey foot and corn were thrown into the wastebasket. teacher set aside the apples to take home. she asked if anyone wanted the little pumpkin pie. thirty mouths watered; thirty hands itched to go up into the air but no one moved. some were poor, many were hungry and all were too proud to accept charitable food. when no one responded, teacher ordered the pie thrown away. francie couldn’t stand it; that beautiful pie thrown away and she had never tasted pumpkin pie. to her it was the food of covered wagon people, of indian fighters. she was dying to taste it. in a flash she invented a lie and up went her hand."i’m glad someone wants it," said teacher."i don’t want it for myself," lied francie proudly. "i know a very poor family i’d like to give it to.""good," said teacher. "that’s the real spirit." based on this excerpt, what is the author’s purpose in writing

Which detail is an example of internal conflict in “the monkeys paw”?

Hurry i am on the semester test which theme is evident in this excerpt from robert frost's "mending wall"? but at spring mending-time we find them there. i let my neighbor know beyond the hill; and on a day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again. we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. my apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him. he only says, “good fences make good neighbors." spring is the mischief in me, and i wonder if i could put a notion in his head: "why do they make good neighbors? isn't it where there are cows? but here there are no cows. before i built a wall i'd ask to know what i was walling in or walling out, and to whom i was like to give offence. . " a. the human desire for material gain b. the influence of financial constraints c. the positive effects of friendship d. the uncertain nature of human relations e. the futility of human yearning

7. read the sentence. i have tried hard to get good photographs of my friends. which word is the adverb? a. good b. hard c. friends d. tried 7 of 10