2. PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?
A: "We can hide our provisions and fly into the
woods. And then you must consequently famish
by wrongdoing your friends." ( Paragraph 2)
B: "I am not so simple as not to know that it is
better to eat good meat, lie well, and sleep
quietly with my women and children" (
Paragraph 3)

C: "And, Captain Smith, this might soon be your
fate too through your rashness and
unadvisedness." ( Paragraph 3)
D: "I, therefore, exhort you to peaceable councils,
and above all linsist that the guns and swords,
the cause of all our jealousy and uneasiness, be
removed and sent away." ( Paragraph 4)

Ead the passage from "marriage is a private affair” by chinua achebe. "i shall never see her,” was the reply. from that night the father scarcely spoke to his son. he did not, however, cease hoping that he would realize how serious was the danger he was heading for. day and night he put him in his prayers. nnaemeka, for his own part, was very deeply affected by his father’s grief. but he kept hoping that it would pass away. if it had occurred to him that never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue, he might have been less optimistic. "it has never been heard,” was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later. in that short sentence he spoke for all of his people. this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke when news went round about his son’s behaviour. by that time the son had gone back to lagos. "it has never been heard,” said the old man again with a sad shake of his head. "what did our lord say? ” asked another gentleman. "sons shall rise against their fathers; it is there in the holy book.” "it is the beginning of the end,” said another. how does this passage reinforce the traditional social hierarchy? the older men in the village tell okeke that he should respect nnaemeka’s decision. the older men in the village console nnaemeka about okeke’s attitude toward his choices. the older men in the village commiserate with okeke regarding nnaemeka’s decision to disobey him. the older men in the village think that nnaemeka should be optimistic that okeke will accept his decision.

The theme of the first seven years is consistent with characteristics of the time in which it was written. what is consistent about the era and the story’s plot?

6. the two primary purposes for sending business messages are typically to and