Read the passage below from “Marigolds” and answer question Miss Lottie's house was the most ramshackle of all our ramshackle homes. The sun and rain had long since faded its rickety frame siding from white to a sullen gray. The boards themselves seemed to remain upright not from being nailed together but rather from leaning together, like a house that a child might have constructed from cards. A brisk wind might have blown it down, and the fact that it was still standing implied a kind of enchantment that was stronger than the elements. There it stood and as far as I know is standing yet a gray, rotting thing with no porch, no shutters, no steps, set on a cramped lot with no grass, not even any weeds-a monument to decay. clues to the meaning of the word ramshackle?​

Answer: appearing ready to collapse or carelessly or loosely constructed a ramshackle plot.

Explanation: here are some of the meanings of the word ramshackle

The quote from the passage Marigolds above provide clues to the meaning of the word ramshackle is There it stood and as far as I know is standing yet. The correct option is b.

Marigolds is a 1969 short story by Eugenia Collier. The story draws from Collier's early life in rural Maryland during the Great Depression. Its themes include poverty, maturity and the relationship between innocence and compassion.

While teaching literature at the Community College of Baltimore County, she published Marigolds in Negro Digest, where it won the inaugural Gwendolyn Brooks prize for fiction; it was her first published story. The story Marigolds is about a young African-American girl named Lizabeth who grew up during the Great Depression. At the beginning of the story, she is childish and does not stop to think about her actions.

With their friends, Lizabeth and her brother go to the yard of an elderly woman, Miss Lottie, and harass her while she tends to her garden of marigolds by throwing stones at the marigolds and yelling rude things at her.

Learn more about Marigolds, here:

https://brainly.com/question/11345008

#SPJ7

Read the passage below from "Marigolds and answer question Miss Lottie's house was the most ramshackle of all our ramshackle homes. The sun and rain had long since faded its rickety frame siding from white to a sullen gray. The boards themselves seemed to remain upright not from being nailed together but rather from leaning together, like a house that a child might have constructed from cards. A brisk wind might have blown it down, and the fact that it was still standing implied a kind of enchantment that was stronger than the elements. There it stood and as far as I know is standing yet a gray, rotting thing with no porch, no shutters, no steps, set on a cramped lot with no grass, not even any weeds a monument to decay.

Which quote from the passage above provide clues to the meaning of the word ramshackle?

"...from white to sullen gray."

"There it stood and as far as I know is standing yet "

"...on a cramped lot with no grass, not even any weeds "

"...like a house that a child might have constructed from cards."

Help

What’s a religion??

And what is monotheism

Someone pls help omg

Why did the US and UN send troops when North Korea attacked South Korea?

to create an alliance

to protect colonial interests

to follow the containment policy

to create a demilitarized zone

​

Magnets have to poles east and west: true or false

Explain how scientific and scholarly ideas were used to support and promote racism.

How did the Mexican-American War (1846-48) and the Wilmot Proviso (1848) contribute to growing sectionalism in the United States?

Was trench warfare an effective method of fighting a war?

In what year were more than one quarter of American workers without jobs

Which of the following DECREASED as an early result of the Industrial Revolution?
А
Life expectancy
B.
The size of the middle class
С
The length of the work day
D
Urbanization

During the 1920s, American farmers experienced which of these trends? (1 point)
1) increasing profits due to mass production
2) increasingly restrictive federal regulations
3) rising land prices resulting from speculation
4) declining crop prices due to overproduction

Explain ONE likely outcome of deindustrialization in a region of manufacturing communities.