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Read the following passage carefully before you choose your answers.

This passage is excerpted from a novel first published in 2006.

I sat watching my mum wash our clothes in a hill stream. She beat the dirt out against a smooth rock, then soaked the bruised cloth in the water, shook it out, and let it float.

I had been keeping my distance. It was my way of punishing her for having been rude to Mr. Watts. Now I thought of another way of getting at her. I took aim at the back of her head and asked her if she missed my dad. No angry look flashed over her shoulder, which is what I had expected. No. What happened was her hands became busier. So did her shoulders.

“Why do you ask, girl?”

I shrugged, but of course she didn’t see that. A new silence was about to open up between us.

“Sometimes,” she added. “Sometimes I will look up and see the jungle part, and there is your father, Matilda. And he is walking towards me.”

“And me?”

She dropped the washing and turned to me.

“And you. Yes. Your father is walking towards us both. And then I have memories.”

“Which are?”

“No blimmin’ use,” she said. “That’s what they are. But since you ask, I do remember back when the mine was open and your father was in court on a disorderly charge.”

I didn’t know any of this, and yet her tone of voice suggested my father’s misdemeanor was no worse, say, than his forgetting to bring her something home from Arawa. His court appearance was no more calamitous than an instant of forgetfulness. This is what she wished me to believe. But I didn’t. I wished she hadn’t told me. There was more.

“I remember how soft and red his face looked,” she said. “How very sorry in a pray-to-God-I-am-sorry sort of way. Well, I remember looking out the window of the courthouse. I saw an airplane draw a white line in the sky, and at the same time a coconut fell past the window. For a moment, I did not know which one to look at, eh—at that thing that was rising or the thing that was falling.”

She pushed off her knees and stood up so she could look at me.

“If you really must know, Matilda, I didn’t know if I was looking at a bad man or a man who loved me.”

I was hearing more than I wanted. This was adult talk. And because she was watching me carefully I knew she had caught up with that thought.

“I miss sea horses too,” she said more brightly. “You will never find a more wise eye anywhere than in a sea horse. This is true. I made that discovery when I was younger than you. And I discovered something about parrot fish. They stare at you in their hundreds and actually remember you from the day before and the day before that one.”

“That’s a lie.” I laughed.

“No,” she said. “It’s true.” She held her breath, and so did I, and she was the first to burst out laughing.

Now that I had met Miss Havisham, and knew more about her unhappy past, I had changed my mind about my mum being like Pip’s sister.1 She had more in common with Miss Havisham—Miss Havisham who cannot move on from the day of her greatest disappointment. On the clock, the exact hour and minute that the bridegroom failed to show. The wedding feast untouched, left for the cobwebs to mark time.

Miss Havisham remains in her wedding gown for an event that has been and gone. I had an idea my mum was stuck in a similar moment. Only it had to do with an argument with my dad. Her frown gave her away. A frown that could be traced back to the original moment. I had an idea that whatever my dad had said still rang in her ears.

In the context of the passage as a whole, the narrator is best described as a reader who

A fantasizes about escaping her boring day-to-day existence

B is passionate about sharing the stories she reads with others

C feels superior to others who have not been exposed to literature

D uses the stories she reads to help contextualize her own experience

E struggles to understand the complicated plots in difficult texts

Answer:

the answer is B because of the answer in it is B is passionate about sharing the stories she reads with other

Can you find one reason why people turn against each other when they are frightened?(from The Crucible)

Affectation used in a sentence

Which sentence contains an error in the degree of comparison of a adjective?​

If you want to use a book as a source of information, which question would be most helpful in evaluating the credibility of the book? Who wrote the book? How long is the book? What is the subject of the book? Who else has read the book?

When one air mass meets a different air mass, this meeting place between air masses is called a front.
A. true
B. false

What feeling is the color red supposed to cause in the stories?

a red feeling which one are they joy, sadness, love,fear

10. Give four functions of the Greek mask.

Help me if your good at English ill mark brainliest

Please help me on this question. I will give 40 points and brainliest if you get the answer right.

Which two types of theater movements do the father and son duo follow? When Christopher started directing stage plays, he preferred in his play, which is why he never used fake props in any of his dramas. He also instructed his actors to completely ignore the audience while performing and act as if they really living the lives of their respective characters. Christopher’s son, also a play director, took his father’s style of directing to another level because he promoted in his plays. He would write his plays digging deep in his characters and the motivations behind their actions. He would ensure that every minute detail is explained in the play. His plays, however, were always about the harsh realities of life.

in what ways is poetry important to our lives?

what do Christians mean by ‘extemporaneous prayer’ (2marks)

brainliest

Reread lines 37-42. How does the
rhythm of this stanza add to the
suspense?

The World's Fair
Based on the story, which statement would
Muybridge MOST LIKELY agree with?
We should concentrate on studying new fields of
science
It was 1893, and the future was all around,
confidently displayed at the World's
Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
George had waited longingly to visit this fair-
not just a small country fair, but THE World's
fair, full of wonders
It was hard to believe that just the day before
George had woken up in his own bed on the
quiet farm outside Chicago. A breeze had
stirred the grass, and from his window he
could see across to the paddock, where a few
horses drifted lazily across the grass.
We can solve the problems of the future by looking
at the past.
We can learn more by looking closely at familiar
things.
We should examine history by applying new
technologies
2 3 4 5
Dane
My Progress
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You want to add the suffix ed to the following words. Which word would require you to change the y to an i?
a
Betray
b
Destroy
c
Hurry
d
Obey

write a friend conversation during a reunion party this is for casual style

Select the correct text in the passage.
Read this excerpt from the dissenting opinion of the Supreme Court ruling on Korematsu v. United States. Which sentence contains the central
idea of the passage?
I dissent, because I think the indisputable facts exhibit a clear violation of Constitutional rights.
This is not a case of keeping people off the streets at night... nor a case of temporary exclusion of a citizen from an area for his own safety or
that of the community, nor a case of offering him an opportunity to go temporarily out of an area where his presence might cause danger to
himself or to his fellows. On the contrary, it is the case of convicting a citizen as a punishment for not submitting to imprisonment in a
concentration camp, based on his ancestry, and solely because of his ancestry, without evidence or inquiry concerning hisloyalty and good
disposition towards the United States. If this be a correct statement of the facts disclosed by this record, and facts of which we take judicial
notice, I need hardly labor the conclusion that constitutional rights have been violated.
The Government's argument, and the opinion of the court, in my judgment, erroneously divide that which is single and indivisible, and thus
make the case appear as if the petitioner violated a Military Order, sanctioned by Act of Congress, which excluded him from his home by refusing
voluntarily to leave, and so knowingly and intentionally defying the order and the Act of Congress.
The petitioner, a resident of San Leandro, Alameda County, California, is a native of the United States of Japanese ancestry who, according to the
uncontradicted evidence, is a loyal citizen of the nation.

In paragraph 16, the word provocative means-

1 foolish

2 numerous

3 tempting

4 challenging ​

16) The word "literacy" in Media Literacy refers to:
OA) Improving my vocabulary
OB) Figuring out meaning and messages
OC) Reading about technology
OD) Learning how to read more quickly

Not too sure on this question so I'm asking here.​

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Has the experiment made Charlie's quality of life better or worse?

In "The Courage That My Mother Had," what is the meaning of the lines "The courage that my mother had I went with her, and is with her still" : mean?

A. the speaker's mother left her nothing when she died.

B. the speaker lacks her mother's courage.

C. the speaker is grateful for the life her mother gave her.

D. the speaker's mother's courage could not help her in the end.

PLEASE ANSWER ASAP 15 POINTS

Based on the introduction [paragraphs 1-6], how does Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. regard Abraham Lincoln?
Group of answer choices

(A) He criticizes Lincoln because black Americans were still discriminated against.

(B) He blames Lincoln for failing to enforce equal rights for black Americans.

(C) He praises Lincoln in pioneering justice for black Americans.

(D) He honors Lincoln for his service during the Civil War.

ILL MARK AS BRAINLESS PLS HELP

Which of the following is an example of how self-awareness can affect communication? a. Self-awareness can help you choose who to communicate with. b. Self-awareness can help you decide how to communicate. c. Self-awareness can help you choose when to communicate. d. All of the above Please select the best answer from the choices provided A B C D

Why should men care about feminism?
А A
Men make up a majority of the population.
B
Men are also negatively impacted by gender stereotypes.
Men should be aware of their privilege.
D
Men can cause greater change than women.

Edgar Allan Poe scavenger hunt

Choose the item that best describes the following statement A strange but beautiful light seemed to surround the castio, and as I drew closer, Theard the sound of a sivery muto That's when
remembered the fairy's second prediction
OA) tone regretful, flashback
OB) tone: mystical flashback
OC) tone regretful, foreshadowing
OD) tone mystical foreshadowing

Which should be separated into two sentences?
O 1. With the ever-growing popularity of the computer, the term "user friendly" has entered the conversation of many people.
2. Strings in a tennis racket can be made of a number of substances, the most popular of which are gut and nylon.
03. Yogurt is basically easy to make, the chief ingredients are no more complicated than milk and yogurt for a "starter."
O 4. Et cetera, which means "and others" in Latin, is abbreviated etc.

What happens to Mrs. Hutchinson at the end of the story?
А
She is killed by the townspeople with stones.
B
She is tricked into picking the paper with the black mark
С
She is banished from the town and never able to return
D
She is punished by the townspeople for a crime she committed.