What statement does edmund make about legitimacy?
its use as a method of judging human merit is no longer credible.
it makes non-legitimate descendants malicious because of their poor treatment.
it is a core cause of social division based on class differences.
it is at best an artificial way to determine a person’s quality of character.

What’s the difference between extract and abstract as nouns and verbs?

4. how does the speaker's comparison of sinners to aninsect (paragraph 7) contribute to the central idea of thetext? o a it emphasizes the negative view god has ofsinners and how inconsequential they are to him.o b it stresses the connection that exists between allof god's creatures, whether they be human orinsect.o c it suggests that sinners can change for the better,as insects are known to go throughtransformations.o d it portrays sinners as being just as prevalentaround the earth as the wide variety of insects.

Which quotation from the passage best supports the themethat humans have a natural desire to learn about theworld? "they were men. i remember the dead man's face.""at least, we make a beginning."and the magic tools are broken—but we can look atthem and wonder."but they were men who built the city, not gods ordemons.