Read the excerpt from “raymond's run.” there is no track meet that i don’t win the first-place medal. i use to win the twenty-yard dash when i was a little kid in kindergarten. nowadays, it’s the fifty-yard dash. and tomorrow i’m subject to run the quarter-meter relay all by myself and come in first, second, and third. the big kids call me mercury ‘cause i’m the swiftest thing in the neighborhood. squeaky’s description of herself in this passage shows readers that she a. has some self-doubt. b. admires the big kids. c. thinks very little of others. d. is very self-confident.

When hamlet shows his mother a picture of king hamlet and a picture of claudius, he tells her to look at the "counterfeit presentment of two brothers." in shakespeare's day, counterfeit meant a "portrait" or "picture." what does counterfeit mean today?

Which sentence from the text best develops the theme about the importance of compassion for other people? "besides, he was the only person in the whole place with skin nearly as dark as hers." "at first she wanted to intern at her dad's gas station, but her teacher told her she needed to branch out and signed michelle up at the oakcourt nursing home, only 15 minutes away from her house." "still, michelle had been curious, and she felt sorry that erkan had a bad reputation among the staff." "she too had felt like everyone mistrusted her--especially at the nursing home where she was so much younger than the rest of the staff--so she understood how he must feel."

Which aspect of anse’s narration as i lay dying most clearly makes him an unreliable narrator?