Which answer best summarizes the events from the poem contained in the following lines? \"this plainly he saw then who with mirth of mood malice no little. had wrought in the past on the race of the earthmen, that his body would fail him. but higelac's hardy henchman and kinsman. held him by the hand\" . a. grendel has the upper hand in the fight and is stronger than beowulf. b. beowulf is struggling in his battle with grendel and wants to give up. c. grendel cannot match beowulf's strength, and he knows he will lose the fight. d. beowulf is happy when he sees a way to end the fight with grendel quic

The correct answer is:

C. Grendel cannot match Beowulf's strength, and he knows he will lose the fight.

Grendel was a monster threatening King Hroðgar, his wife Wealhþeow, and their court. Beowulf left to Zealand determined to pay his father's debt. Grendel attacked them during the night and Beowulf fought back with his bare hands and broke off Grendel's arm, which would later be attached to the wall of Heorot.

ich statement best shows a problem in travels with charley?

one sharp difficulty presented itself. in the intervening twenty-five years my name had become reasonably well known.

this being so, my trip demanded that i leave my name and my identity at home.

i had to go alone and i had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back.

with all this in mind i wrote to the head office of a great corporation which manufactures trucks.

the significance of the title, "the passing", is related to the fact that the main characters, who are three african-american descendant women, are passing as white. this means that, because of their light-coloured skins they look like white women. one of the three friends, clare, is married to a white man and she lives in a white community and she has never told her husband that she is black. the title can easily be connected to the idea of pretending to be someone you are not and of losing your real identity in order to be accepted by society.