Which of the following statements is true, according to the textbook? a. the audience will not see your nervousness to the degree you feel it. b. you should practice your speech by going over it in your head while driving. c. most people fear public speaking more than snakes or death. d. it is not necessary any longer to consider public speaking as more formal than everyday "talk."

How does the narrator’s knowledge of his postapocalyptic world in "by the waters of babylon” affect his reactions to the different settings? it motivates him to make up stories about the world and the places he explores. it has caused him to fear the settings outside the hill country, so he tries to avoid them. it forces him to reject what he sees and experiences himself at various locations in the story. it makes him cautious about new settings yet open-minded and critical of what he experiences.

Select all the correct answers. in which two sentences does the author use an ironic tone toward the subject? a. she had no dowry, no expectations, no way of being known, understood, loved, married by any rich and distinguished man; so she let herself be married to a little clerk of the ministry of public instruction. b. natural ingenuity, instinct for what is elegant, a supple mind are their sole hierarchy, and often make of women of the people the equals of the very greatest ladies. c. the girl was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a family of clerks. d. she dressed plainly because she could not dress well, but she was unhappy as if she had really fallen from a higher station.

In the poem "we wear the mask," paul laurence dunbar voices his repressed anger and frustration toward american society. he repeats the title phrase three times in the poem, using the words mask and we to show that the first use of the phrase is matter-of-fact. in the second stanza, the statement is followed by a period, which shows resignation. however, at the end of the poem, dunbar almost shouts the phrase defiantly. the mask seems to become something he wears proudly. through this gradual emphasis on the phrase, dunbar could be implying that