Read these lines from the passage and answer the question that follows.

'bertie,' she said, 'you look a sight. you look perfectly dissipated.'
i was feeling like a badly wrapped brown-paper parcel. i'm never at my best in the early morning. i said so.

when bertie says he feels like a "badly wrapped brown-paper parcel" he means that he feels

Malcolm x's attitude towards the dictionary could best be described as a) apathetic b) dumbfounded c) awestruck d) disinterested

Which syllable is stressed with the word retribution

The courage that my mother had went with her, and is with her still: rock from new england quarried; now granite in a granite hill. the golden brooch my mother wore she left behind for me to wear; i have no thing i treasure more: yet, it is something i could spare. oh, if instead she'd left to me the thing she took into the grave! - that courage like a rock, which she has no more need of, and i have. based on the 2nd stanza, how does the speaker feel about the golden brooch that was passed down from the mother to child? question 2 options: a: the speaker thinks it was a waste of money b: the speaker places a high value on the item c: the speaker never wears the brooch d: the speaker feels it could be easily replaced