Read the excerpt from "a poem for my librarian, mrs. long.” she would go to the big library uptown and i now know hat in hand to ask to borrow so that i might but she nonetheless brought the books back and i held them to my chest close to my heart how does the time period in which the poem takes place contribute to the reader’s understanding of this excerpt? a) it shows how books provided the speaker with an escape from social injustices. b) it illustrates how involved people were with the social conflicts in society and what they did to overcome them. c) it gives the reader a clear picture of what mrs. long considered to be the most important issues of her day. d) it provides specific details about what the speaker and the people in her community thought about civil rights.

Jeff does not have to make a share responsibility payment because he was covered by a health insurance plan through his employer for the full tax year.

When the telephone rings incessantly, what is it that the men want to have happen? they want the phone to be answered because it is jangling their nerves. they want mr. frank to go to the office and answer it because they are afraid it might be bad news. they want mr. frank to go to the office because they think it might be miep. they want mr frank to ignore the phone.

Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.