Read the excerpt from Suffragists' "Great Demand" Banner. The picketing was amplified on Sunday, March 4, 1917, the day of Wilson’s second inaugural, when the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National Woman’s Party organized a demonstration to "encircle the President’s Mansion with a chain of purple, white and gold.” In spite of a drenching rain, more than one thousand people came out to stand in silent vigil for several hours. A mile or so away, Jeannette Rankin of Montana took her seat in the House of Representatives as the first woman to be elected to the U. S. Congress.

According to the passage, which event spurred the demonstration around the President’s Mansion?

a drenching rainstorm
the election of Jeannette Rankin
an increase in picketing downtown
the inauguration of President Wilson

What is the source of tension in this excerpt? ellery searching everything insects filling the light fixtures ellery standing on the desks louise carpenter whispering

1. find at least 9 adjectives from this opening passage used to describe the setting of the story- "to build a fire" setting: day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. it was a steep bank, and he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. it was nine o'clock. there was no sun nor hint of sun, through there was not a cloud in the sky. it was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun. this fact did not worry the man. he was used to the lack of sun. it had been days since he had seen the sun, and he knew that a few more days must pass before that cheerful orb, due south, would just peep above the sky-line and dip immediately from view.

Use context, including antonyms, to determine the meaning of the word hysterical as it is used in fahrenheit 451. write your definition of hysterical here.