Part a: which of the following statements best describes the boys’ friendship?

a. the boys dislike one another and are eager to “betray” one another.

b. they have a strong bond that leads them to form a gang and take a blood oath.

c. they jointly follow tom but do not hesitate to squabble or poke fun at one

another.

d. the boys form a friendship more out of boredom than actual affection.

Read the following passage: he roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. the pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue— but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. the once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance. there were times, indeed, when i thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage. which of the above ideas might be considered foreshadowing? he is wandering all over the chamber his skin tone is really pale his voice is quivering the narrator thinks he is laboring with an oppressive secret