Excerpt from: a charmed life richard harding davis 15 "but why punish me? " she protested. "do i want the war? do i want to free cuba? no! i want you, and if you go, you are the one who is sure to be killed. you are so big--and so brave, and you will be rushing in wherever the fighting is, and then--then you will die." she raised her eyes and looked at him as though seeing him from a great distance. "and," she added fatefully, "i will die, too, or maybe i will have to live, to live without you for years, for many miserable years." . the focus of paragraph 15 is a) cuba. b) honor. c) bravery. d) selfishness

The rich natural resources made the sacramento valley a "garden of eden." permanent villages were established about 8,000 years ago.which choice combines these two sentences from paragraph two to achieve a coherent flow of ideas? a) the rich natural resources made the sacramento valley a "garden of eden" and permanent villages were established about 8,000 years ago. b) permanent villages were established about 8,000 years ago and the rich natural resources made the sacramento valley a "garden of eden." c) the rich natural resources made the sacramento valley a "garden of eden; " and so the permanent villages were established about 8,000 years ago. d) because of the rich natural resources which made the sacramento valley a ‘garden of eden,’ native americans established permanent villages there 8,000 years ago.