PART B: Which quotation from the passage best supports the answer to Part A?
A.
“indicating the dangers of the region towards which we are advancing”
(Paragraph 1)
B.
“for my own sake, all well as yours, I will not rashly encounter.” (Paragraph 3)
C.
“the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies” (Paragraph 4)
D.
“What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?” (Paragraph 4

the answer should be b.

explanation:

it should be b because she researched before writing so it would be in past tense. "the author researches her subject before she had written the first draft.

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.

the word that best matches the meaning of the expression "went to the big ocean" is died.

the goldfish died, which is why the father looks at the children mournfully. the "big ocean" is the father's way of saying fish heaven. he could have just said that the goldfish died, but this way, the children imagine the fish in a bigger, better place instead of just picturing a dead fish.

explanation: