Item 2 Read the sentence from Peking Dust.

Do you think a ten-thousand-dollar automobile is handsome?

Which word has the closest connotation to handsome as it is used in the sentence?

elegant

athletic

generous

extensive

the answer:

in the first part of the story running is all that matters to squeaky. running gives her confidence and defines who she is. at the beginning of the story she says that other kids call her mercury because she runs very fast. in the text she refers to herself as "miss quicksilver".

the line that provides the best evidence that squeaky has self-confidence is

" and i continue with my breathing exercise, strolling down broadway toward the ice cream man on 145th with not a care in the world cause i am miss quicksilver herself".

don't enter the room

explanation:

or you can just ask him to move away from his house