Read the excerpt and answer the question.

i remember squatting in the road drawing a picture in the dust, a picture which joey gleefully erased with one sweep of his dirty foot. i remember fishing for minnows in a muddy creek and watching sadly as they eluded my cupped hands, while joey laughed uproariously.

how does joey's behavior contribute to the mood of the excerpt?

a. his mischievous actions add to lizabeth's worries.
b. his angry acts make lizabeth question her loyalties.
c. his cheerful outlook lizabeth see things differently.
d. his childish thoughtlessness contrasts with lizabeth's emotions

Read the excerpt from "death by black hole."albert einstein's general theory of relativity, published in 1916, provides the insight to understand the bizarre structureof space and time in a high-gravity environment. later research by the american physicist john a. wheeler, and others, to formulate a vocabulary as well as the mathematical tools to describe and predict what a black hole will do toits surroundings.read the excerpt from "man listening to disc."and i bow deeply to thelonious monkfor figuring out a wayto motorize or whatever-his huge pianoso he could be with us today.these excerpts are similar because both texts

Which evidence supports the inference that nora is afraid of what torvald will say if krogstad tells him about her forgery? do it for my sake—for your own sake—for the children's sake." "you don't know what that letter can bring upon us." "yes, it's too late." "you will never have to do that."

Based on her speech in the excerpt ,what can we infer about francesca