Answer:
Due to him being writer he probably saw them as exotic worlds so A.
Explanation:
Excerpt from: Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
THERE was no use in arguing with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with me. But the result was just the same. I never could more than get one knotty thing learned before another presented itself. Now I had often seen pilots gazing at the water and pretending to read it as if it were a book; but it was a book that told me nothing. A time came at last, however, when Mr. Bixby seemed to think me far enough advanced to bear a lesson on water-reading. So he began—
What conclusion can you make from the first paragraph?
A) Mr. Bixby dislikes the narrator.
B) The narrator is angry with Mr. Bixby.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
D) Mr. Bixby thinks the narrator is stubborn.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
Answer:
PART A
C. Mahes intentionally gets arrested so that he can have access to food and security that he does not have when homeless in New York City.
PART B
D. "He does not want to hurt people or rob a bodega or hold up a taxi driver. He just wants to eat well and sleep in peace. "
PART C
A. Swarns wants to help support Mahes outside of prison, while past layers weren't interested in what happened to him.
PART D
B. Fresh from law school at the University of Pennsylvania, a 25-year-old in her first job, she bothered to ask why he did it.
D. Mr. Fasulo and Ms. Swarns argued for placement in a halfway house, where he would have food and counseling.
I think the answer is b the conservatives were violent
