Use “Oregon National Historic Trail” to answer questions 5-9. Which of these ideas is reinforced throughout the selection? a The Louisiana Purchase officially made the Oregon Country part of the United States. b The Rocky Mountains made it nearly impossible to travel west by wagon. c Hostile bands of American Indians made the Oregon Trail dangerous. d Most of the earliest settlers of the West were European fur traders.

Read the stanza below from the poem “tattoo” by gregg shapiro and answer the question that follows. if i could trade places with him i would pad the rest of his days wrap him in gauze and velvet absorb the shocks and treat his wounds i would scrub the numbers from his flesh extinguish the fire and give him back his life what does shapiro use to create the conceit in the lines above? a) he carries one line of poetry onto the next. b) he paints vivid word pictures that trigger the imagination by appealing to the five senses. c) he directly expresses a metaphor using like, as, or than. d) he uses physical protection to represent emotional protection.

Is the group of words a simple sentence, a compound sentence, or a run-on sentence? jan went on a quiz show, won two hundred dollars, and bought gifts for her family. a. run-on sentence b. compound sentence c. simple sentence

7-12 sentences, you should write why you selected that event, provide a summary of that event, the importance of that event in caesar's life and your reaction to that specific event. cute textual evidence is necessary.