Click on the question mark. choose the most reasonable inference
based on the text evidence and what you already know.
text evidence
what you already know
inference
" lenses were not
many people today wear
widely used until after the
contact lenses.
1940s. that's when companies
began manufacturing contact
lenses from plastic."
companies manufactured contact lenses from plastic because it was
much cheaper.
plastic was too hard for companies to find until after the 1940s.
plastic contact lenses have continued to be popular since the 1950s.
people only bought plastic contact lenses after their old ones broke or
got scratched

Excerpt from the rainbow, chapter x (excerpt) d. h. lawrence then there was an outcry. mrs. brangwen would not have it; no, she would not. all her innate dignity and standoffishness rose up. then there was the vicar lecturing the school. "it was a sad thing that the boys of cossethay could not behave more like gentlemen to the girls of cossethay. indeed, what kind of boy was it that should set upon a girl, and kick her, and beat her, and tear her pinafore? that boy deserved severe castigation, and the name of coward, for no boy who was not a coward—etc., etc." from the textual evidence provided in this paragraph, what conclusions can the reader draw regarding the vicar? a) he favors boys over girls. b) he has no strong feelings. c) he supports mrs. brangwen's perspective entirely. d) he tends to be indulgent towards children's misbehavior.