After Robert Fulton invented the steamboat, he tried it out on the Hudson River.
Answer: Victor lingers in his homeroom so he can be near Teresa.
Explanation:
The rising action of a story refers to the evens that preclude the climax. They are events that keep building up the conflict in the story until they boil out in the climax.
In the story Seventh Grade, Victor is a boy who really like a girl named Teresa and has promised to himself that she will be his girlfriend that year. When he went to his homeroom to begin the semester and discovers that Teresa is in his homeroom as well, he lingers so he can be near her and leave at the same time she is leaving so that they can make contact.
Answer:
Alexander the Great, as you'll recall, conquered the immense Persian Empire at the age of twenty-five.
