2. PART B: Which quote from the text best supports the answer to Part A?
O A “There's something downstairs!' I said. He got up and
followed me to the head of the back staircase. We
listened together." (Paragraph 3)
OB "So she had heard the steps, too! We just looked at her.
'Burglars!' she shouted intuitively." ( Paragraph 4)
OC "Just what the h-is the real lowdown here, Bud?' he
asked. I decided to be frank with him. 'We had ghosts,'!
said." ( Paragraph 12)
OD "We thought at first he had forgotten all about what
had happened, but he hadn't." ( Paragraph 14)

The travels of marco polo.what is the author’s purpose for writing this text?

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Geoffrey is writing a paper investigating friendly-fire incidents in recent us military actions. which paragraph topic would be relevant to his paper and would therefore merit inclusion in his final draft? a) a paragraph criticizing us military actions in the viet nam war b) a paragraph discussing how friendly-fire incidents are investigated c) a paragraph describing what basic boot camp is like for a new army enlistee eliminate d) a paragraph discussing how hard an extended military service can be on a family