Select the correct answer.Which detail best develops the idea that having time in solitude will result in happiness? A. "The sky was full of stars, and the garden of scents, and the borders of wallflowers and sweet, sly pansies." (paragraph 3) B. "I shall watch the things that happen in my garden, and see where I have made mistakes." (paragraph 1) C. "I had some visitors here a fortnight ago who left after staying about a week and clearly not enjoying themselves."(paragraph 25) D. "Wouldn't it be perfect to get up every morning for weeks and feel that you belong to yourself and to nobody else?" (paragraph 11)

Select the correct answer.What statement best summarizes the passage? A. The narrator and her husband argue about how the summer should be spent as he wants to have guests and she wants to be alone. B. The narrator contemplates having time to grow her soul by refusing to see anyone besides her husband or read any books for the summer. C. The narrator describes how she wants to explore nature and then compares herself to a bird that is both cheerful and quarrelsome. D. The narrator longs to spend the summer in solitude out in nature, and her husband thinks that she will be bored.

3.The pleasure in being outdoors is fundamental to human happiness.

Which of the following theme statements fit the lines below from “Stopping by a Woods on a Snowy Evening”?The woods are lovely, dark and deep,   But I have promises to keep,   And miles to go before I sleep,   And miles to go before I sleep.Group of answer choicesIt’s never a good idea to stay too long on someone else’s land.The pull of being alone in nature is sometimes in conflict with the pull of responsibility.Nature has the ability to make people feel tired and sleepy or relaxed.Being sure to get enough rest is an important part of one’s responsibilities.

Select the correct answer.Which detail best develops the theme that it is a joy to connect with other people? A. "When I learned that the moths die so soon, I saved them especially, because there seemed no wickedness in it." "I have thought the same thing," said the Bird Woman encouragingly. (paragraphs 9–10) B. "He said for me to stick to the swamp and be brave, and my hour would come, and it has! I know most of them are all right, and oh, I do need the money!" (paragraph 25) C. "At a bare table of oak, yellow as gold, sat a woman Elnora often had watched and followed covertly around the Limberlost. The Bird Woman was holding out a hand of welcome." (paragraph 5) D. "You come here at four," said the Bird Woman, "and we will drive out with some specimen boxes, and a price list, and see what you have to sell." (paragraph 24)

by William HazlittI go out of town in order to forget the town and all that is in it. There are those who for this purpose go to watering-places, and carry the metropolis with them. I like more elbow-room and fewer encumbrances. I like solitude, when I give myself up to it, for the sake of solitude; nor do I ask for       “ friend in my retreat,       Whom I may whisper solitude is sweet.”The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do, just as one pleases. We go a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences; to leave ourselves behind much more to get rid of others. It is because I want a little breathing-space to muse on indifferent matters, where Contemplation       “May plume her feathers and let grow her wings,       That in the various bustle of resort       Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd,”that I absent myself from the town for a while, without feeling at a loss the moment I am left by myself. Instead of a friend in a postchaise1 or in a Tilbury, to exchange good things with, and vary the same stale topics over again, for once let me have a truce with impertinence.9Select the correct answer.What is the tone of the passage? A. argumentative B. scholarly C. reflective D. sarcastic