Read this excerpt from The Land.
What is the best reason why this excerpt is important to the
story?
Eventually there came the time on a late summer afternoon
just before my twelfth birthday when folks came to visit and
it was my mama, not my daddy, who ordered me to the
kitchen. Robert was now expected to stay at my daddy's
table, and no amount of protest on his part changed that
My mama set a lone plate for me on the sideboard in the
kitchen. That was truly the first time I felt unwanted in my
daddy's family. My daddy hadn't even bothered to tell me
himself not to sit at his table. He had left that to my mama,
and I resented not only him for it, but her too.
It develops the characterization of Paul's mother.
O It addresses the minor theme dealing with loneliness
O It provides specific details about the historical setting.
It addresses the major theme dealing with inequality

Select all that apply. identify the objective case personal pronouns. i me you him, her he, she it we us them they

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?

Which two lines in this excerpt from arthur conan doyle's "the contest" suggest that emperor nero was ruthless? each choice is in brackets. [an hour later the shepherd was well on his way to his mountain home, and about the same time the emperor, having received the chaplet of olympia for the incomparable excellence of his performance, was making inquiries with a frowning brow as to who the insolent person might be who had dared to utter such contemptuous criticisms.] [“bring him to me here this instant,” said he, “and let marcus with his knife and branding-iron be in attendance.”] [“rumours! ” cried the angry nero. “what do you mean, arsenius? i tell you that the fellow was an ignorant upstart, with the bearing of a boor and the voice of a peacock.] [i have half a mind to burn their town about their ears so that they may remember my visit.”] [“i conquered! you are mad, arsenius. what do you mean? ”] [it is whispered that for once the great god pan has condescended to measure himself against a mortal.”]