Question

Read the passage from The American Plague. Knox found that his warrior instinct had abandoned him. He closed up his house and fled across New Jersey to Manhattan Island. Knox was turned away from Manhattan and wound up in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, where he spent two weeks in quarantine. This passage contains A)the central cause of the story. B)cause-and-effect relationship. C)signal words that explain a cause.D) signal words that explain an effect.

Answer 1

Answer:

B

Explanation: took the test bruh

Answer 2

Answer: This passage contains a B) cause-and-effect relationship.

Explanation: A cause-and-effect relationship consists in two or events that are connected to each other because one is a result from the other/s. In other words, one of the events determines why something happened, and the other event refers to the consequence of that event. In this passage from The American Plague, the fact that Knox lost his warrior instinct is the cause, while having closed up his house and travelling from New Jersey to Manhattan Island is the effect.