Read the excerpt from "Homesick Blues." Now I'm looking at the numbers 7-9-5-3. According to my computer, they are the balance in my checking account. $79.53. Also according to the computer, a plane ticket home costs $387.00. I can't even get a bus ticket with the money I have. And the rent is due next week, and we still have six months on our lease, and I can't leave Alyssa hanging like that. Every time I mention going home, she sinks into a state of depression and starts acting aloof and nervous. But she doesn’t realize that I am just as depressed when I think about staying here.

Which best states how Alyssa's reaction to the idea of the narrator going home compares to the narrator's reaction?

A.) Alyssa encourages the narrator to move home, but the narrator is determined to stay.
B.) Alyssa is anxious that the narrator might move home, but the narrator is too depressed to stay.
C.) Alyssa ignores whether the narrator might move home, and the narrator is too depressed to stay.
D.) Alyssa is furious that the narrator might move home, but the narrator is determined to move home.

Which of the following best summarizes the entire passage

In the poem, collins compares his love to a pigeon on a generals head

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator