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Tom Rasberry collected samples of the ant . . . and sent them off to a lab at Texas A&M to be identified. But taxonomy—the process of ordering living things into species—is arguably more an art than a science, and figuring out what species the ants were, and where they came from, quickly became vexing. Academics from other institutions swarmed in to debate, for example, the significance of four tiny hairs on the ant's thorax. For years, they hurtled through a series of wrong answers, but the consensus eventually leaned toward a certain invasive ant, called Nylanderia pubens . . . . —Jon Mooallem, from "There's a Reason They Call Them 'Crazy Ants'" Which of the following best describes the main idea of the passage? A.Classification of the ant's species was an arduous and drawn-out matter. B.There was considerable debate regarding the process of classifying the ant. C.The ant was studied and classified as the Nylanderia pubens species. D.Small physical features factor into the classification of species. {Ans: Correct Answer: A Option (A) is correct. The passage highlights the difficulties both scientifically and academically with the classification of the ant.}Questions 8-10 refer to the following poems. Piano Softly, in