In chapter 12, why does Huck wish Tom Sawyer could be there to help him explore the steamboat? Tom's sense of adventure would give Huck courage to go aboard.
Tom knows more about steamboats than Huck does.
O Tom is a very good swimmer, and could help Huck and Jim with the raft.
Tom is very strong, and could carry heavy items off the abandoned boat.

What name was given to the western european christian church after the religious schism in 1054 ce?

Read the excerpt from the dark game: true spy stories from invisible ink to cia moles. yet, by the time robert e. lee surrendered to ulysses grant at appomattox, virginia, some four years later, about 620,000 soldiers had died on the battlefields, more than american battle deaths in all other wars from the revolution through the vietnam war. what is the author’s primary purpose for including this detail? to inform readers about the differences between three military conflicts to persuade readers of the seriousness of the american civil war to entertain readers with tales from behind the lines of battle to encourage readers to visit battlegrounds in appomattox, virginia

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?