Identify the CHARACTER represented in the following passage: She was tall and thin, brittle looking on first glance. That was probably because she was so tentative coming into a stranger’s home. . She was brown, mostly dark brown, but here and there it lightened a little, lending a subtle texture to her skin. I imagined the broad sweep of clouds across the earth from an astronaut’s view. Or maybe it was a parchment, incredibly old and almost erased by age and rain, the slight gradation of color coming from sepia glyphs whose secrets were now gone.

Identify the AUTHOR of the following passage: This house, which seemed somehow to have formed itself, flying together into its own pattern under the hands of its builders, fitting itself into its own construction of lines and angles, reared its great head back against the sky without concession to humanity. It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house.

Identify the AUTHOR of the following passage: he formal features of the ruin are situated in an ambiguous zone, whereby what remains is defined by what is absent.

Identify the CHARACTER represented in the following passage: _______’s surprise might have deepened into some uneasiness had he not been a person of singularly un-distrustful good nature, not liable, except on extraordinary and repeated incentives, and hardly then, to indulge in personal alarms, any way involving the imputation of malign evil in man.

A European visitor to the United States asked a taxi driver, “Can you please a ride to the airport me give?” This visitor has apparently not yet mastered the ________ of the English language.

Randy is a bold person who enjoys stimulating and risky activities. His latest activity involved skydiving off mountainous cliffs. Randy is likely:

Eight-year-old Tommy has been acting up in class and so will not be allowed to play with his classmates during recess. Tommy’s negative feeling about the punishment is because of:

Sixteen-year-old Jonah practices his violin several hours a week with no prompting from his parents. His goal is to be accepted to Juilliard School and someday perform with the New York Philharmonic. Jonah’s behavior exemplifies:

Two-year-old Jada is bored. She has been stuck in her car seat for 30 minutes, has played with every toy available to her, and has looked at everything in the car. She wants desperately to escape. She is motivated to escape the car seat to:

Mr. Porter believes that aggression is an unlearned behavior characteristic of all children. He obviously believes that aggression is a(n):