Which excerpt from chapter 23 of the adventures of huckleberry finn most clearly illustrates that the duke is someone who does not take responsibility for his actions and would rather blame others if something does not go well?

a)so the duke said these arkansaw lunkheads couldn't come up to shakespeare; what they wanted was low comedy—and maybe something ruther worse than low comedy, he reckoned.

b)then the duke he lets the curtain down, and bows to the people, and says the great tragedy will be performed only two nights more, on accounts of pressing london engagements, where the seats is all sold already for it in drury lane.

c)“‘walk fast now till you get away from the houses, and then shin for the raft like the dickens was after you! ’"

d)“‘greenhorns, flatheads! i knew the first house would keep mum and let the rest of the town get roped in; and i knew they'd lay for us the third night, and consider it was their turn now.’”

Read the excerpt from cristina garcia’s dreaming in cuban.i don’t really want to talk about my father but i end up telling minnie how he used to take me horseback riding on our ranch, strapping me in his saddle with a leather seat belt he designed just for me. dad’s family owned casinos in cuba, and had one of the largest ranches on the island. there were beef cattle and dairy cows, horses, pigs, goats, and lambs. dad fed them molasses to fatten them, and gave the chickens corn and sorghum until they laid vermilion eggs, rich with vitamins. he took me on an overnight inspection once. we camped out under a sapodilla tree and listened to the pygmy owls with their old women’s voices. my father knew i understood more than i could say. he told me stories about cuba after columbus came. he said that the spaniards wiped out more indians with smallpox than with muskets.how does the structure of the excerpt add meaning to the passage? it includes historical information about the spaniards and indians to indicate the work is nonfiction.it describes the setting of the ranch owned by pilar’s cuban grandparents to explain family values.it uses several narrators to share their points of view about past and present life in cuba.it manipulates the chronological order of events to reveal the close relationship between pilar and her father.

Choose the sentence that is not logically connected in the paragraph. (1) doctor henderson was a kind and gentle man. (2) his patients loved and respected him. his death made many of them sad. (3) as a young man, he decided to become a doctor and pursue a life of healing and comforting. (4) his work will long be remembered by the citizens of battle creek, michigan.

Conclusions made on the basis of unstated or stated evidence are called .