Read the following short passage and answer the question. i recognized her at once, without seeing her face, which was covered by the winding-sheet, and on the marble cross, where shortly before i had read: "she loved, was loved, and died." i now saw: "having gone out in the rain one day, in order to deceive her lover, she caught cold and died." why did the author include this passage in the story? a. it explains why the narrator was so greatly upset by his beloved's death. b. it makes the narrator look foolish for having decided to visit the graveyard. c. it surprises both the narrator and the reader by revealing the dead woman's character. d. it supports a claim made by the narrator at the beginning of the story.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. sugar is a taste we all want, a taste we all crave. people throughout the planet everywhere have been willing to do anything, anything at all, to get that touch of sweetness. we even know exactly how thrilling it was to taste sugar for the first time. when the lewis and clark expedition met up with the shoshone, who had little previous contact with old world products, sacagawea gave a tiny piece of sugar to a chief. he loved it, saying it was "the best thing he had ever tasted." sugar created a hunger, a need, which swept from one corner of the world to another, bringing the most terrible misery and destruction, but then, too, the most inspiring ideas of liberty. sugar changed the world. we begin that story with a man who could never know enough. how does the conclusion of the prologue support the authors’ purpose? select two options. it introduces the topic that will be addressed next. it provides information about the authors. it states why the topic is relevant to readers. it cites sources the authors used in the text. it explains how the authors came to study the subject.