"Mind you don't," said Bessie; and when she had ascertained that I was really subsiding, she loosened her hold of me; then she
and Miss Abbot stood with folded arms, looking darkly and
doubtfully on my face, as incredulous of my sanity.
- What is the meaning of the word ascertained, as it is used in the
previous sentence?
A) determined
B) disbelief
C) discovered
D) divested

From his studies of coptic, champollion knew that the egyptian word for "sun" was pronounced rah. he wrote down the first two letters of that sound, ra. next he put a question mark for the unknown middle hieroglyph. then, at the end, he wrote ss, the sound of the last two hieroglyphs. he studied the combination: ra ? ss. suddenly he remembered a famous pharaoh whose name appeared in ancient greek chronicles and also in the biblical book of exodus: rameses, or ramesses. could this be a hieroglyphic representation of ramesses' name? based on the excerpt, what detail did champollion need to conclude that the hieroglyphics might represent ramesses’s name?

It was extremely base of him to desert you in your time of need. ( change into exclamatory sentence)

Identify how chekhov’s background and beliefs may have influenced his short story “the bet”.