The most dangerous game zaroff explains the rules of the game to rainsford while dressed “faultlessly in the tweeds of a country squire,” eating french food and drinking fine wine. the author uses this contrast a. to portray the general as superior to his prey. b. to tell the reader that rainsford has reason to envy zaroff. c. to create a dark and foreboding mood. d. to illustrate the theme that although humans are civilized, their violent urges still exist.

Make sure the topic of your persuasive essay is not a. something someone else is writing about b. a fact c. something you have written about before

Grammar: sequence of verp tenses quiz active the is used for an event that has been completed before the present moment in time. simple past past perfect perfect progressive past perfect progressive

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.