Jerry looked at his block of wood and sighed. it was time again to make a pinewood-derby car. he was supposed to whittle a little car out of wood and attach wheels so he could roll it down a track in the pinewood derby. last year, his car had fallen apart before getting to the bottom of the track. it was very embarrassing, and he wanted to do better this year.

2“you know what,” he said to himself, “last year you just threw your car together. you didn't even paint it. this year you can do better.”

3all week jerry worked on his little car. every day after school, instead of turning on the television, he worked on his car. he cut the shape and then sanded it down again and again with sandpaper until it was thin and sleek and smooth. he attached the wheels and oiled them so they spun quickly, but steadily. he painted the car red and orange. “these are fast colors,” he said to himself.

4“you're practically living in the garage these days,” his mother said. “that must be some special little car you're working on in there.”

5“it sure is,” jerry replied, shoving the last bite of his sandwich in his mouth, so he could get back to work.

6later, after his red and orange pinewood-derby car took first place in the race, he was almost sad it was over. he would miss spending time on it in the garage. “next year,” he thought, “i'm going to work even harder.”

"pinewood derby".

read the passage.

what is this story mainly about?

a
a boy who works in the garage every night

b
a boy who builds a winning pinewood-derby car

c
a boy who grows up to be an auto mechanic

d
a pinewood-derby car that falls apart before the end of the race

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.

i feel like it is actually b.

given the fact that the question is about the detail that best support the idea that oppressive leaders use   propaganda to achieve thir goals,   the first option does not refer to any kind of propaganda, since it only tells about that the milk and the windfall apple should be reserved for the pigs. in the second option, that is, "snowball and napoleon sent out flights of pigeons whose instructions were to mingle with the animals on the neighbouring farms, tell them the story of the rebellion, and teach them the tune of "beasts of england". it can be identified that the oppressors make use of the propaganda, which is represented by the pigeons, and the information they have to tell other animals about what was happening in the farm in order to get their objectives. for that reason, the right answer is the second option, taking into account that the third option do not refer to propaganda since it only talks about that they did not want jones back. and, finally, the last option refers to the result of the given news, but it does not mean about the propaganda they used to achieve their goals.

i literally just read the book and studied it for months so i could you, but i need to know where these questions are coming from. they are too general.