why is the background information on the town of ripley relevant to john p. parker's account of the underground railroad? *select two to complete your answer.
select all that apply

a.)due to ripley's commercial productivity, it would become a very important city during the civil war.

b.)the busy town and riverfront were the landscape that john p. parker had to lead the runaway slaves through.

c.)it is important to john p. parker that people remember how commercially successful his hometown of ripley was.

d.)the community of both abolitionists and those who tried to capture runaway slaves affected john p. parker's work.

Which of the following passages from the book best represents the author's use of symbolism? a. the photograph taken of the young enlisted men representing the horrors of war b. woody's mustache representing the government's hidden rules and regulations c. papa's fishing fleet representing his interrogation experience in the south dakotan military facility d. the large empty expanse of the firebreak representing jeanne's feelings of separation from her parents

Read the stanza below from the poem “tattoo” by gregg shapiro and answer the question that follows. if i could trade places with him i would pad the rest of his days wrap him in gauze and velvet absorb the shocks and treat his wounds i would scrub the numbers from his flesh extinguish the fire and give him back his life what does shapiro use to create the conceit in the lines above? a) he carries one line of poetry onto the next. b) he paints vivid word pictures that trigger the imagination by appealing to the five senses. c) he directly expresses a metaphor using like, as, or than. d) he uses physical protection to represent emotional protection.

What attitude of the aristocracy is illustrated by lady bracknell's lines in the play?