Literature
When Salva hopes to stay with the old woman he meets first, he tries to win her favor by...
carrying firewood
Solve for x:
7x + 37 = 24
x = -13/7
The creation of _____ or the illusion of depth is another important use of space in two-dimensional artworks.
perspective
What is the study of ocean floor contours called?
Bathymetry
Physician and microbiologist, Robert Koch, isolated the bacterium that causes what illness?
Cholera
The well for Nya's village was paid for by money from what?
an American school
Evaluate 7n - 3z for n = 3 and z = 12.
-15
A _____ is a person of exceptional ability.
virtuoso
What is the largest and deepest ocean basin?
Pacific Ocean
After the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 CE, world leadership in water engineering passed to what nation/region?
China
The term iambic refers to a pattern of syllables in which an unstressed syllable is followed by an accented syllable. For example, "Extended hempen hands" is an iambic line. The meter of a line is the number of accents. How many accented syllables are in the line "Extended hempen hands?"
3
What is the 7th term in the arithmetic sequence:
5, 12, 19, ...
47
Traditional ukiyo-e prints featured which of the following:
a. society portraits
b. courtesans and actors
c. landscapes and cityscapes
d. still lifes
e. children and their pets
b. courtesans and actors
What is the prehistoric supercontinent called?
Pangaea
When was the percentage of global water usage at highest levels for irrigation?
1900
What rhetorical device does Emily Dickinson use most frequently in "I Started Early--Took My Dog?"
caesura
If a game has the roll of a die and drawing a card in one turn, how do these two events compare to each other?
They are independent.
John Luther Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for a musical piece in 2013 and the title was inspired by concerns of what?
Climate change
What is the term for the horizontal distance between two adjacent wave crests?
Wavelength
A(n) _____ plant collects waste into airtight tanks and the chemical reactions inside the tanks produce methane that can be used for fuel.
biogas
Transcendentalism is a philosophical outlook which emphasizes the use of _____.
intuition
What is the cube root of 343?
7
The first known public performance of the armonica was performed by whom?
Marianne Davies
The earliest land vertebrates came from a lineage called tetrapods. What does "tetrapods" mean?
four-footed
What is the landmass southeast of the European Alps, also called the Italic or Italian Peninsula?
Apennine Peninsula