Which detail from the last paragraph shows the extent of Miss Lottie’s determination to grow marigolds? NO links please A) “The old black witch-woman worked on them all summer, every summer, down on her creaky knees, weeding and cultivating and arranging”

B) “in front of the sorry gray house, rose suddenly and shockingly a dazzling strip of bright blossoms, clumped together in enormous mounds, warm and passionate and sun-golden” Eliminate

C) “They interfered with the perfect ugliness of the place; they were too beautiful; they said too much that we could not understand”

D) “It should have been a comical sight—the old woman with the man’s hat on her cropped white head, leaning over the bright mounds, her big backside in the air”

A. “The old black witch-woman worked on them all summer, every summer, down on her creaky knees, weeding and cultivating and arranging”

the correct answer is c. analytical reasoning. it is when you analyze the situation to form conclusions.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.