Which Sentence Best Explains How The Narrator Views The Native Villagers At The End Of The Story? The (2023)

Since you said it, the awnswer is B

B.) people realize the power of memory only when members of society touch upon something from the past.

"STAGE MANAGER: Well. Now we're ready to get on with the wedding.

There are a lot of things to be said about a wedding; there are a lot of thoughts that go on during a wedding. We can't get them all into one wedding, naturally, and especially not into a wedding at Grover's Corners, where they're awfully plain and short."

What is significant about the language in this excerpt from Our Town? Select all that apply.
A) It lacks specificity.
B) It creates an enthusiastic tone.
C) It makes weddings seem dull and uninspiring.
D) It encourages the audience to make inferences about weddings.

Passage A 1 The neighbors sometimes talked of certain "better days" that little Mrs. Sommers had known before she had ever thought of being Mrs. Sommers. She herself indulged in no such morbid retrospection. She had no time—no second of time to devote to the past. The needs of the present absorbed her every faculty. A vision of the future like some dim, gaunt monster sometimes appalled her, but luckily to-morrow never comes.
2 Mrs. Sommers was one who knew the value of bargains, who could stand for hours making her way inch by inch toward the desired object that was selling below cost. She could elbow her way if need be; she had learned to clutch a piece of goods and hold it and stick to it with persistence and determination till her turn came to be served, no matter when it came.
3 But that day she was a little faint and tired. She had swallowed a light luncheon—no! when she came to think of it, between getting the children fed and the place righted, and preparing herself for the shopping bout, she had actually forgotten to eat any luncheon at all!
4 She sat herself upon a revolving stool before a counter that was comparatively deserted, trying to gather strength and courage to charge through an eager multitude that was besieging breastworks of shirting and figured lawn. An all-gone limp feeling had come over her and she rested her hand aimlessly upon the counter. She wore no gloves. By degrees she grew aware that her hand had encountered something very soothing, very pleasant to touch. She looked down to see that her hand lay upon a pile of silk stockings. A placard near by announced that they had been reduced in price from two dollars and fifty cents to one dollar and ninety-eight cents; and a young girl who stood behind the counter asked her if she wished to examine their line of silk hosiery. She smiled, just as if she had been asked to inspect a tiara of diamonds with the ultimate view of purchasing it. But she went on feeling the soft, sheeny luxurious things—with both hands now, holding them up to see them glisten, and to feel them glide serpent-like through her fingers.
5 Two hectic blotches came suddenly into her pale cheeks. She looked up at the girl.
6 "Do you think there are any eights-and-a-half among these?"
7 There were any number of eights-and-a-half. In fact, there were more of that size than any other. Here was a light-blue pair; there were some lavender, some all black and various shades of tan and gray. Mrs. Sommers selected a black pair and looked at them very long and closely. She pretended to be examining their texture, which the clerk assured her was excellent.
8 "A dollar and ninety-eight cents," she mused aloud. "Well, I'll take this pair." She handed the girl a five-dollar bill and waited for her change and for her parcel. What a very small parcel it was! It seemed lost in the depths of her shabby old shopping-bag.
9 Mrs. Sommers after that did not move in the direction of the bargain counter. She took the elevator, which carried her to an upper floor into the region of the ladies' waiting-rooms. Here, in a retired corner, she exchanged her cotton stockings for the new silk ones which she had just bought. She was not going through any acute mental process or reasoning with herself, nor was she striving to explain to her satisfaction the motive of her action. She was not thinking at all. She seemed for the time to be taking a rest from that laborious and fatiguing function and to have abandoned herself to some mechanical impulse that directed her actions and freed her of responsibility.
10 How good was the touch of the raw silk to her flesh! She felt like lying back in the cushioned chair and reveling for a while in the luxury of it. She did for a little while. Then she replaced her shoes, rolled the cotton stockings together and thrust them into her bag. After doing this she crossed straight over to the shoe department and took her seat to be fitted.

Compared to the narrator of Passage B, the narrator of Passage A provides more information about:
A.) the personal interactions with the main character.
B.) the knowledge gained and lessons learned by the main character.
C.) the thoughts and feelings of the main character.
D.) the past experiences of the main character.

A) the personal interactions with the main character.

URGENT!!!!!!! Passage B
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1 Whatever shock Mrs. Springer experienced at my aunt's appearance she considerately concealed. Myself, I saw my aunt's misshapened figure with that feeling of awe and respect with which we behold explorers who have left their ears and fingers north of Franz Josef Land, or their health somewhere along the Upper Congo. My Aunt Georgiana had been a music teacher at the Boston Conservatory, somewhere back in the latter sixties. One summer, while visiting in the little village among the Green Mountains where her ancestors had dwelt for generations, she had kindled the callow fancy of the most idle and shiftless of all the village lads, and had conceived for this Howard Carpenter one of those extravagant passions which a handsome country boy of twenty-one sometimes inspires in an angular, spectacled woman of thirty. When she returned to her duties in Boston, Howard followed her, and the upshot of this inexplicable infatuation was that she eloped with him, eluding the reproaches of her family and the criticisms of her friends by going with him to the Nebraska frontier. Carpenter, who, of course, had no money, had taken a homestead in Red Willow County, fifty miles from the railroad. There they had measured off their quarter section themselves by driving across the prairie in a wagon, to the wheel of which they had tied a red cotton handkerchief, and counting off its revolutions. They built a dugout in the red hillside, one of those cave dwellings whose inmates so often reverted to primitive conditions. Their water they got from the lagoons where the buffalo drank, and their slender stock of provisions was always at the mercy of bands of roving Indians. For thirty years my aunt had not been further than fifty miles from the homestead.

2 But Mrs. Springer knew nothing of all this, and must have been considerably shocked at what was left of my kinswoman. Beneath the soiled linen duster which, on her arrival, was the most conspicuous feature of her costume, she wore a black stuff dress, whose ornamentation showed that she had surrendered herself unquestioningly into the hands of a country dressmaker. My poor aunt's figure, however, would have presented astonishing difficulties to any dressmaker. Originally stooped, her shoulders were now almost bent together over her sunken chest. She wore no stays, and her gown, which trailed unevenly behind, rose in a sort of peak over her abdomen. She wore ill-fitting false teeth, and her skin was yellow from constant exposure to a pitiless wind and to the alkaline water which hardens the most transparent cuticle into a sort of flexible leather.

3 I owed to this woman most of the good that ever came my way in my boyhood, and had a reverential affection for her. During the years when I was riding herd for my uncle, my aunt, after cooking the three meals—the first of which was ready at six o'clock in the morning—and putting the six children to bed, would often stand until midnight at her ironing board, with me at the kitchen table beside her, hearing me recite Latin declensions and conjugations, gently shaking me when my drowsy head sank down over a page of irregular verbs. It was to her, at her ironing or mending, that I read my first Shakespeare; and her old textbook on mythology was the first that ever came into my empty hands. She taught me my scales and exercises, too—on the little parlor organ, which her husband had bought her after fifteen years, during which she had not so much as seen any instrument, but an accordion that belonged to one of the Norwegian farmhands. She would sit beside me by the hour, darning and counting while I struggled with the "Joyous Farmer," but she seldom talked to me about music, and I understood why. She was a pious woman; she had the consolations of religion and, to her at least, her martyrdom was not wholly sordid. Once when I had been doggedly beating out some easy passages from an old score of Euryanthe I had found among her music books, she came up to me and, putting her hands over my eyes, gently drew my head back upon her shoulder, saying tremulously, "Don't love it so well, Clark, or it may be taken from you. Oh, dear boy, pray that whatever your sacrifice may be, it be not that."

Based on the first paragraph of Passage B, one can infer that the narrator:

A.) agrees with Aunt Georgiana's family's summation of Howard Carpenter.

B.) believes that Aunt Georgiana's problems resulted from her helplessness.

C.) feels that aristocratic values can have a stifling effect on a person.

D.) thinks that Aunt Georgiana has made an important contribution to society.

D) thinks that Aunt Georgiana has made an important contribution to society.

In The Lady, or the Tiger, which quote shows the princess’s fear of the other door? a)

“Not only did she know in which room stood the lady, ready to emerge, all blushing and radiant should her door be opened, but she knew who the lady was.”

b)

“How often, in her waking hours and in her dreams, had she started in wild horror and covered her face with her hands as she thought of her lover opening the door on the other side of which waited the cruel fangs of the tiger!”

c)

“But how much oftener had she seen him at the other door!”

d)

“Would it not be better for him to die at once, and go to wait for her in the blessed regions of semi-barbaric futurity?”

1 Archaeology is the study of the material culture, or remains,(31) of historic and prehistoric peoples and cultures. Material culture consists(32) of artifacts and architecture. It provides archaeologists and historians with information about an area and the people who once lived there. When material culture is found buried in the Earth, archaeologists use precise skill to uncover it. These artifacts are used to learn about people from past societies, of which(33) histories are incomplete or do not exist.(34) These discoveries help people to learn more about the history of the world. 2 (35)Excavation is the process of digging up or unearthing objects that have been buried(36) underground. Once a dig site has been surveyed, examined, and gets mapped,(37) archaeologists start their excavation to uncover artifacts. If they use large tools during this process, they risk destroying artifacts. Small tools are usually preferable because archaeologists can be more careful and exact, but the task often takes a long time.
3 Consequently,(38) when an artifact is found, the surrounding area is surveyed as a potential dig site to learn as much as possible about the site's extent. Many types of surveys can be done to learn different facts about the site. For example, surface survey involves searching an area for aboveground artifacts while aerial survey is conducted from the sky and can easily map a large site. Geophysical survey, on the other hand,(39) is the most effective way to see what was(40) underground. Archaeologists use a variety of tools to search for artifacts underground. These tools measure electrical currents and detect changes in Earth's magnetic field.
4 After excavating the site, archaeologists collect artifacts they've found. This process can be exhaustive(41) and time-consuming. Artifacts must first be cleaned of dirt or other particles and then to catalog(42) numerically to keep track of each object.(43)
5 As(44) archaeologists often begin their analysis when they return with the artifacts to a safe place, such as a laboratory. Material culture provides archaeologists and historians with information about the site and the people who once lived there. When they're done analyzing artifacts, archaeologists usually publish their findings; allowing others to(45) learn from what they found.

Refer to Number 35 in the passage and choose the best response below.

For the sake of the logic and coherence of the essay, Paragraph 2 should be placed:

A.) where it is now.
B.) after paragraph 3.
C.) after paragraph 4.
D.) after paragraph 5.