The author’s details about locked hotels and snipers watching the crowd from above (lines 61–66)  help create a tone that is 

What does opaque mean? 

Which word best describes the audience’s response to the lecture?

On February 1, the author watches as a man surveys the crowd and the city “with a big smile”.   What is the author’s attitude toward this scene? Include details to support your  answer.

On February 1, the author watches as a man surveys the crowd and the city “with a big smile”.   What is the author’s attitude toward this scene? Include details to support your  answer.

As Gregor lies in bed, he thinks about how his imaginary pains “had always turned out to be pure imagination . . . and he wondered how his imaginings would slowly resolve themselves today” (lines  121–123). From this detail, readers can infer that Gregor 

In lines 24–31, the author describes how men stop throwing rocks so that she and her nieces can scramble toward the crowd. This incident illustrates the fact that 

The implied conflict throughout the story is between

Vocabulary – Choose the answer that best explains the meaning of each underlined word. People who are discordant are

In lines 54–56, Quindlen says there was concern after the cold war that “the left side of the hyphen  . . . would overwhelm the right.”    Which statement best summarizes this concern?