What is the purpose of this passage?

a)
to describe
b)
to persuade
c)
to ridicule
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d)
to entertain

What can be inferred from the following sentence in the passage? then he asked me my name. scarcely had i uttered it when he made a gesture of astonishment. a) the sentence implies that the attendant knows the colonel. b) the sentence implies that the colonel is giving up on life. c) the sentence implies that the attendant is going to get fired. d) the sentence implies that the colonel recognizes the attendant's name.

Which of the following would not be a good supporting sentence for an example paragraph with the following topic sentence?

Which best describes the author’s purpose in the excerpt you read from free the children?