(Based on text) The speaker of the text is BEST understood to be a - ✔✔mother (Based on text) The setting of the text is BEST understood to be a - ✔✔poor, rural home (Based on text) The structure of the text as a single sentence BEST functions to - ✔✔add a sense of speed and stress to the text (Based on text) The text in italics is BEST understood to be - ✔✔the response from the girl the speaker is talking to (Based on text) Which of the following BEST describes the feeling the speaker of the poem has toward the girl she is speaking to? - ✔✔dissatisfied (Based on text) The speaker of the poem provides advice on all of the following EXCEPT - ✔✔maintaining employment (Based on text) The tone of the final sentence of the passage is BEST described as - ✔✔appalled Which of the following is an example of an ancient Greek sea narrative? - ✔✔Homer's The Odyssey When did literature about the sea first expand beyond religion to begin to treat water as a political and economic space? - ✔✔the Age of Discovery Literary scholars often consider which of the following to be the first "true English sea novel"? - ✔✔The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea Which author's work, A Long Walk to Water, discussed water shortages in the Sudan? - ✔✔Linda Sue Park Which of the following creatures was the frightening monster in Peter Benchley's novel? - ✔✔great white shark The Sea-Wolf was first published in - ✔✔1904 The theme of industry and capitalism is BEST illustrated by which of the following from the novel? - ✔✔the crew of the Macedonia sending hunting boats ahead of the hunting boats from the Ghost London's earliest experiences earning money and working on a boat came from - ✔✔poaching oysters using his sailboat Which of Jack London's writings expressed a xenophobic reaction to an increase in immigration from Asia? - ✔✔"The Unparalleled Invasion" The Sea-Wolf is written in which point of view? - ✔✔first person Van Weyden described himself as "a scholar and dilettante, if you please, in things artistic and literary." Here, a dated definition of "dilettante" is used and is BEST understood to be a/n - ✔✔admirer of the arts Who does Van Weyden describe as having "oily, insinuating tones," a "greasy smile," and "monstrous self-conceit"? - ✔✔Mugridge While Captain Larsen seems to enjoy speaking with Van Weyden, Van Weyden knows that "his function is to amuse" and describes his value to Larsen as "no more than a child values - ✔✔a toy." Captain Larsen proudly shows Van Weyden a device he created that he hopes "To get patented, to make money from it." What did the device do? - ✔✔It made navigation easier by calculating the location of a ship. Van Weyden thought that it was "unnatural and unhealthful" for men to be separated from women, determining that the "inevitable results" in men were - ✔✔"coarseness and savagery"