Which line from "Summers in the Oak" best supports the view that things never stay the same? A That had been eleven years ago, and, now in high school and far too mature and busy to climb trees or build tree houses, the three were still steadfast friends. B The line of lunchtime regulars outside the front door of the burger joint dwindled and disappeared as people scattered frantically to their cars to avoid the deluge. C Thaddeus caught sight of the old companion that had once been the site of so many adventures for the three friends, and yelled out, "Whoa! Look at that! It's totally wasted!" D "Dad was right, I guess, warning us about being struck by lightning," Thaddeus commented, then laughed a little nervously.

Which passage from the story best shows how the mothers attitude toward gregor has changed

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

Identifying parts of a chemical equation identify each part of this chemical equation that describes the burning of methane and oxygen. b (blue box): d (number): e (purple box):