The two main characters in richard connell's "the most dangerous game," general zaroff and sanger rainsford, size each other up when they meet. zaroff says of rainford's negative reaction to hunting humans, "it's like finding a snuffbox in a limousine". what does he likely mean by this comparison?
a) he believes rainsford has outdated, old-fashioned values in a modern world.
b) he admires rainsford for holding ancestors' beliefs in the new world.
c) he suggests that rainsford is new to the pleasures that the modern world offers.
d) he claims that rainsford will not prosper in life if he clings to his puritan ways.

The missionaries who appear in the novel are colonists from a) britain b) portugal c) spain d) italy

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

What is the main idea of “young lions, young ladies”?