PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?
A. "and the black box now resting on the stool had been put into use even before
Old Man Warner, the oldest man in town, was born." (Paragraph 5)
"Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody
work any more, live that way for a while." (Paragraph 32)
"There's always been a lottery,' he added petulantly. 'Bad enough to see young
Joe Summers up there joking with everybody."" (Paragraph 32)
"Seventy-seventh year I been in the lottery,' Old Man Warner said as he went
through the crowd. 'Seventy-seventh time." (Paragraph 40)

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

In the essay “drowning in dishes,” what is ironic about the fact that danial’s first position in his new job is the dishwashing station?

Which form does a verb take when the subject receives the action?