Read the following passage and answer the question. Thus sped the demoniac on his course, until, quivering among the trees, he saw a red light before him, as
when the felled trunks and branches of a clearing have been set on fire, and throw up their lurid blaze against
the sky
What is the connotation of lurid in the sentence?
hot
O attractive
O enchanted
horrifying

Read the excerpt from suffragists' "great demand" banner. in 1917, more than one thousand women stood before the white house in a cold, pouring rain, holding silent vigil to demand a constitutional amendment to extend the vote to them. their quest to be enfranchised by law was known at the time as the great demand. the smithsonian's great demand banner, as it came to be called, declares in bold words and style the determination of the women who made and carried it. their campaign on behalf of women sought to move america one step closer to fulfilling the nation's long-deferred promise of equality under the law. which statements about this excerpt are correct? check all that apply.