Which factor promoted the development of new forms of entertainment such as dance halls, carnival rides, and professional sports?
a. the new middle class had leisure time and extra money.
b. unemployed urban workers needed ways to spend their time, so they would not turn to crime.
c. busy city people no longer had time for older, more time-consuming forms of entertainment.
d. new technologies allowed people all over the world to view entertainment everywhere.

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.

Carl sandburg's poem "fog" is in a.) free verse b.) blank verse c.) iambic pentameter .

“to build a fire” what does the man realize as he’s trying to light the matches? what difficulty occurs when the man finally lights all of his matches at once?