Read Aesop's "The Oak and the Reeds." Then answer the question. An Oak that grew on the bank of a river was uprooted by a severe gale of wind and thrown across the stream. It fell among some Reeds
growing by the water and sald to them, "How is it that you, who are so frail and slender, have managed to weather the storm, whereas I,
with all my strength, have been torn up by the roots and hurled into the river?"
"You were stubborn," came the reply. "You fought against the storm, which proved stronger than you but we bow and yield to every breeze,
and thus the gale passed harmlessly over our heads."
Which three phrases describe the setting of the story?
-the edge of a river
-tree roots in the ground
-in a breeze
- among the Reeds
-during a storm

Arestriction on the amount of a particular foreign currency that can be purchased or sold is called what?

Which best identifies the figurative language used in this passage? cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon in front of them volley’d and thunder’d; storm’d at with shot and shell, boldly they rode and well, into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell rode the six hundred.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.