Easy short question but idk !

a student is revising the sentence below:
my intent is simply to amuse the audience, to give them some joy to remember later in their dreary week.

based on the context of this sentence, which would be the best synonym for amuse?

a) distract—to turn aside or away from; sidetrack
b) engage—to hold the attention of; engross
c) entertain—to provide entertainment for; divert
d) —to satisfy, gratify, or make content

Review the previous excerpt from barbra jordan’s speech. answer the following 3 questions in the space below.

Part b: which phrase from the text best support the answers to part a? a. “i don't want to talk to somebody when i go check in at an airport. i just either download the boarding pass to my phone or walk up to a kiosk and get it.” (paragraph 8) b. “you do not have to go far to find someone who disagrees with andrew mcafee, just around the corner to the office of another person at the same university.” (paragraph 11) c. “the set of things that machines do not do like humans is innumerable.” (paragraph 16) d. “you wonder if you're joining that long litany of voices who go down as having made the incorrect prediction one more time, but i think the facts are different this time.” (paragraph 23)

How does the author of finding flight incorporate ideas from the poem hope is the only thing with feathers into her work