Which quotation from the great fire best reflects the central idea that the fire might have been extinguished sooner, if not for several different issues? a “chicago had recently renovated its fire alarm system, making it one of the best in the nation.” b “later at the official inquiry, all of the mistakes and missed chances that occurred in the opening minutes of the fire would be discussed.” c “like thousands of other people, he was on his way to de koven street to watch the fire.” d“it must sweep on until it reached a broad street, and then, everybody said, it would burn itself out."

B “Later at the official inquiry, all of the mistakes and missed chances that occurred in the opening minutes of the fire would be discussed.”

B “Later at the official inquiry, all of the mistakes and missed chances that occurred in the opening minutes of the fire would be discussed.”

Explanation:

In "The Great Fire," the author Jim Murphy depicts some of the key mistakes that prevented the 1871 Chicago fire from being extinguished sooner. For example, a fireman who forgot to pull down the lever of the signal box four times, which would have made it a true second alarm.

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.