Read the excerpt from "the lottery." because so much of the ritual had been forgotten or discarded, mr. summers had been successful in having slips of paper substituted for the chips of wood that had been used for generations. chips of wood, mr. summers had argued, had been all very well when the village was tiny, but now that the population was more than three hundred and likely to keep on growing, it was necessary to use something that would fit more easily into the black box. the night before the lottery, mr. summers and mr. graves made up the slips of paper and put them in the box, and it was then taken to the safe of mr. summers' coal company and locked up until mr. summers was ready to take it to the square next morning. the rest of the year, the box was put away, sometimes one place, sometimes another; it had spent one year in mr. graves's barn and another year underfoot in the post office, and sometimes it was set on a shelf in the martin grocery and left there. what important information does the setting in this excerpt communicate about the story? a. the setting reveals that the village people rarely shop for groceries because there is only one grocery store. b. the setting proves that the old way of selecting the names from the black box is better. c. the setting reveals that the village population is small and maintains a country lifestyle. d. the setting describes why special care is taken to secure the black box and the village family names.

Tom’s testimony has the effect of making scout feel sympathetic towards both tom and mayella. explain why she is sympathetic towards each of them.

How does the author create a surprise ending? cite evidence from the text to support your answer.

In just over one hundred years, between 1701 and 1810, 252,500 enslaved africans were brought to barbados—an island that occupies only 166 square miles (making it, today, one of the smallest countries in the world). the english then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with jamaica, which they took from spain in 1655. in the same period that the 252,500 africans were brought to barbados, 662,400 africans were taken to jamaica. thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the atlantic, to barbados and jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. the english were eagerly filling antigua, nevis, saint kitts, and montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. they took over much of dutch guiana for the same reason. seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the french started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of hispaniola that they controlled (which is now haiti), as well as martinique, guadeloupe, and french guiana (along the south american coast near dutch guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more african slaves. by 1753, british ships were taking average of 34,250 slaves from africa every year, and by 1768, that number had reached 53,100. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? x(a) they use secondary sources to show how french and english monarchs were indifferent to enslaved people. x(b)they use secondary sources to show that enslaved people often fought for their freedom after arriving in the caribbean. the answer is: (c)they use facts from primary sources to show how countries increased the number of enslaved people to produce more sugar. x(d)they use primary source interviews to show that countries could make more money in trading sugar without using enslaved people.