4. Which of the following is true about the relationship between the narrator and Roderick? A. They made a point to meet up at least once a year since their schooling days.
B. Although they were great boyhood friends, they had not seen each other in years.
C. Their friendship was strained after disputing the ownership of the House of Usher.
D. Roderick feels fatherly toward his younger friend.

Which phrase in this excerpt from james joyce's "araby is a participial phrase? north richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the christian brothers' school set the boys free. an uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. the other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces the former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. among these i found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: the abbot, by walter scott, the devout communicant and the memoirs of vidocq. i liked yellow. the wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which i found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump. he had been a very charitable priest, in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.

Aword that characteristics of both a verb and a noun

Tom’s testimony has the effect of making scout feel sympathetic towards both tom and mayella. explain why she is sympathetic towards each of them.