7. In the following sentence, what is the meaning of "interspersed"? How do you know?

"Interspersed in these residential areas were a variety of businesses--paint factories, lumberyards, distilleries,
gasworks, mills, furniture manufacturers, warehouses, and coal distributors."

In that sentence interspersed means scattered or in different places.

Explanation:

I know that because it says variety and it listed stores.

i would like to compare these two interpretations of the crucible : 1) eric christ's interretation and wade bradford's interpretation. the main differences between there interretaions is that in the first one you can notice direct link to joseph mccarthy whereas the second one represents how the town is filled with hysteria.the second interpretation shows that author believes that the story   about puritan town in salem is based on actual events while the first example shows the sencible reference to sort of bias.

often a noun phrase is just a noun or a pronoun:

people like to have money.

i am tired.

it is getting late.