Part A In the excerpt from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, why does Tom tell Ben that he does not consider whitewashing the fence to be work?

He wants Ben to keep talking to him.

He is trying to trick Ben.

He wants to go swimming with Ben.

He wants to keep Ben from taking his job.
Question 2
Part B

Which text evidence best supports the answer to Part A?

"'Only just a little—I’d let you, if you was me, Tom.'"

"Ben ranged up alongside of him. Tom’s mouth watered for the apple, but he stuck to his work."

"Tom considered, was about to consent; but he altered his mind:"

"Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart. "

From his studies of coptic, champollion knew that the egyptian word for "sun" was pronounced rah. he wrote down the first two letters of that sound, ra. next he put a question mark for the unknown middle hieroglyph. then, at the end, he wrote ss, the sound of the last two hieroglyphs. he studied the combination: ra ? ss. suddenly he remembered a famous pharaoh whose name appeared in ancient greek chronicles and also in the biblical book of exodus: rameses, or ramesses. could this be a hieroglyphic representation of ramesses' name? based on the excerpt, what detail did champollion need to conclude that the hieroglyphics might represent ramesses’s name?

Read the passage below and answer the question, dill was a curiosity. in the excerpt above, the word "curiosity" suggests that dill is odd dill asks a lot of questions dill is hard to understand dill is lost

The travels of marco polo. based on the text and the map, which labeled location sends products to shihr?