Part a: which of the following identifies the central idea of the text?

a. cuba and the united states did not accept jewish refugees because they simply did not have the economic means to support them.

b. the prejudices and economic fears of several countries led to the deaths of many jewish refugees, who tried to escape nazi germany.

c. despite not gaining entry to the united states or cuba, the jewish refugees found security from other countries that were wealthier

d. due to the small number of refugees on the st. louis, relatively few people were affected by cuba’s decision to deny them entry.

(never mind i figured it out. it's b)

Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.