Which of the following inferences about tubman is best supported by the first two sentences of the excerpt?

dear harriet: i am glad to know that the story of your eventful life has been written by a kind lady, and that the same is soon to be published. you ask for what you do not need when you call upon me for a word of commendation.

answer choices for the above question
a. she has written a story of her life and has written douglass for words supporting the book.
b. a book has been written about her life and tubman has asked for douglass’s words of support.
c. tubman fears douglass will resist supporting the book.
d. tubman is greedily asking for something she doesn’t need.

4.in those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. •type of figurative language: •meaning of figurative language: •effect on tone and mood: •effect on audience: choose out of these: hyperbole, irony, historical question, paradox, allusion,metaphor,personification,symbolism and simile

Which choice is a major detail from paragraph two? a) the great wall is a large network of several walls and towers. b) the great wall looks like a long wall snaking its way across china. c) the great wall was constructed over hundreds of years beginning in 221 b.c. d) the great wall construction encouraged several independent kingdoms to unite.

The major was a little man with upturned mustaches. he had been in the war in libya and wore two wound-stripes. he said that if the thing went well he would see that i was decorated. i said i hoped it would go well but that he was too kind. i asked him if there was a big dugout where the drivers could stay and he sent a soldier to show me. i went with him and found the dugout, which was very good. the drivers were with it and i left them there. what effect does hemingway’s limited use of adjectives have? it slows down the narration by interrupting the action. it makes the few descriptive words he does use more vivid and forceful. it makes the narrator seem powerless and insincere. it prevents the readers from filling in the details with their own experiences.