Select the correct answer, Read this excerpt adapted from Katherine Mansfield's "The Garden Party."
And after all, the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it-windless, warm,
the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light gold, as it is sometimes in early summer. The gardener had been up since
dawn, mowing the lawns and sweeping them, until the grass and the dark flat rosettes where the daisy plants had been seemed to shine.
Which word best describes the mood of the passage?
OA
cheerful
OB.
mysterious
Oc.
anxious
OD
playful
ok

"and these i address to all females that would be married, or are already so; not that i suppose their sex more faulty than the other, and most to want advice, for i assure [women], upon my honour, i believe the quite contrary; but the reason is, because i esteem them better disposed to receive and practice it, and therefore am willing to begin, where i may promise myself the best success." this statement from franklin's "rules and maxims for promoting matrimonial happiness" best demonstrates his use of criticism to argue his point his use of common sense to appeal to women his use of flattery to gain women's attention his use of facts to prove his point