The first narrator, from the beginning of The Time Machine, interrupts the Time Traveller’s report and makes an observation. What does the Time Traveller do during this time? A. The Time Traveller found flowers in his pocket. B. The Time Traveller needed to eat and get coffee. C. The Time Traveller jotted something down he just remembered on a note. D. The Time Traveller found a speck of blood on his coat.

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the imagery and word choice in the second stanza creates a tone of liveliness and joy danger and gloom silence and peace anger and hostility

Which excerpt best states the central idea of the second paragraph of the dark game ?

(the black cat poem) where does the writer fail to support her points with evidence? what evidence from the story would you suggest adding to support these points?