It was with a wrench and a pang that edna left her children. she carried away with her the sound of their voices and the touch of their cheeks. all along the journey homeward their presence lingered with her like the memory of a delicious song. but by the time she had regained the city the song no longer echoed in her soul. she was again alone.
what does this excerpt reveal about edna’s feelings toward motherhood?
a. she feels that motherhood above all else is the noblest undertaking.
b. she is happy to leave her children behind and explore her own freedom.
c. she longs to return to the children at once rather than return to new orleans.
d. she loves her children, but this is not enough to fulfill her as a human being.

d. She loves her children, but this is not enough to fulfill her as a human being.

Explanation:

In this passage, we learn about Edna's mixed feelings towards motherhood. We learn that Edna is extremely sad to be losing her children. She thinks of them, and their voices. She thinks of them and the memory causes her pain because she misses them. However, we also know that this is not enough for her to go back to them, and that once she is in the city, she does not think of them anymore. We can assume that although Edna misses her children, she wants more out of life.

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.

the answer is decimated