Which sentence best paraphrases the following line? “The . . . dread sentence of death—was the last of distinct accentuation which reached my ears.” A The death sentence was the last thing I heard clearly.
B I distinctly heard a sentence with the word death in it.
C Someone with a foreign accent spoke to me about death.
D I feared the horrible death to which I had been condemned.

Read the excerpt from eighty years and more: reminiscences, 1815-1897. all that day and far into the night i pondered the problem of boyhood. i thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. so i decided to study greek and learn to manage a horse. which question would best the reader understand stanton's viewpoint in this excerpt?