What is the author’s purpose in this biography excerpt? to tell when and where the story takes place
to explain how difficult it is to travel in some climates
to show how dangerous it is to leave Honduras
to introduce the main character and describe his traits

In edgar allen poe's "masque of the red death", what object is kept in the black room?

Eleanor roosevelt repeatedly brings up the idea of education. what does she most likely mean when she uses the word education?

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive