What single effect does the setting and mood of this passage create?
It creates an effect of fear and darkness
because of the look and color of the room.
It creates an effect of comfort and loftiness
because of the expensive antique furniture.
0 It creates an effect of anxiety toward the
unusual people who remodeled the house.
It creates an effect of vast openness because
of the small furniture in a large space.

Read this excerpt from the exposition in "the monkey's paw." father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. what is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence? a. the father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot. b. the woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear. c. the father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules. d. since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.