Carol is using her critical-reading skills to prepare for her writing assignment. she identifies what the topic is and assesses her current level of knowledge. carol is using her and is in the stage of critical reading.

irving effectively uses emotional responses to create suspense in the story.irving’s tone creates expectations for the reader, which in turn create suspense.irving’s suspense would have been more effective with more vivid details.irving’s story is not suspenseful

the significance of the title, "the passing", is related to the fact that the main characters, who are three african-american descendant women, are passing as white. this means that, because of their light-coloured skins they look like white women. one of the three friends, clare, is married to a white man and she lives in a white community and she has never told her husband that she is black. the title can easily be connected to the idea of pretending to be someone you are not and of losing your real identity in order to be accepted by society.

i think it was california.

the correct answer is: a) every day, the children play and swim in the lake.

explanation: the topic is about the children playing and swimming everyday in the lake, the rest of the sentence is only a positive description of the outcome of such events.