TIME REMAINING 01:51:44 Read this excerpt from The Golem. PEARL You made this mess. The least you could do is get the water to clean it up. The golem takes a step toward her. Pearl stifles a little shriek; she is more surprised than scared. PEARL What's this about? What do you want? The golem stretches out his arm toward the bucket. PEARL Really? You'll get the water from the stream? . . . All right, then. But please be quick about it. The golem takes her bucket, plus another, and moves stiffly but quickly to the door and leaves. Pearl smiles. PEARL It may not be such a bad thing to have a golem around the house after all. Pearl’s view of the golem changes. She now thinks he is slightly frightening but useful. slightly unintelligent but pleasant. slightly frightening but harmless. slightly ugly but well-meaning.

Read the following excerpt from the declaration of independence: when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. the history of the present king of great britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations to prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. he has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. how do the authors of the declaration best use deductive reasoning to support the idea that the colonists have a right to form a new government? o a. they first establish the widely accepted belief that governments derive their power from the people. o o b. they list the colonists' grievances against the british monarchy, starting with the king's refusal to "assent to laws." o c. they first establish the idea that declaring one's intentions is a decent and expected measure. o d. they follow his initial statement by pointing out that the colonists do not take these measures lightly.