Read the excerpt from the awakening, by kate chopin. he was returning to the city to his business, and they would not see him again at the island till the coming saturday. he had regained his composure, which seemed to have been somewhat impaired the night before. he was eager to be gone, as he looked forward to a lively week in carondelet street. mr. pontellier gave his wife half of the money which he had brought away from klein's hotel the evening before. she liked money as well as most women, and accepted it with no little satisfaction. how does the excerpt reflect its social and historical context?

Ineed . read the passage, and choose the two (2) inferences that are most firmly based on the given information. the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was outlawed in 1919 by theeighteenth amendment. prohibition, as it was called, achieved a number of good results. it lowered the average consumption of alcohol. 4rrests for drunkenness fell sharply. the rate of alcoholism was reduced. if the prohibitionists had been willing to legalize beer and wine, the experiment might have worked. instead, by insisting on a totally “dry” society, they drove thousands of ordinary people to break the law. 1. during prohibition, alcohol was not available. 2. during prohibition, many usually law-abiding people drank illegally. 3. the prohibitionists opposed the use of any form of alcoholic beverage. 4. the prohibitionists were tolerant of moderate social drinking.