Answer: Sentence 6
Explanation: Every year, Thanksgiving was a big deal, a holiday of epic proportions, for the Grabowski family. (2) Grandma invited the whole family to her house in Andersonville each year. (3) Cousin Tom made his homemade bread and stuffing, along with mashed potatoes. (4) His sister Marybeth prepared chicken soup that everyone enjoyed along with trays of vegetables and dips. (5) Some years, more than twenty people showed up, and everyone carried an appetite, so there had to be an abundance of food on the table. (6) The table looked like a fancy buffet at a restaurant, covered with fragrant apple pies, steaming and juicy turkey, and sizzling hot sweet potatoes. (7) People ate and talked and had a lot of fun all through the afternoon, and most of them were asleep on the couches by eight o'clock. 127 words, 9.2 Flesch, 1090 Lexile
Answer: to reveal that dictators manipulate others and use deception to further their ambitions.
Explanation:
Orwell's main purpose in this passage is to reveal that dictators manipulate others and use deception to further their ambitions.
Despite the famine and the food situation, Napoleon was well aware of the bad results that might follow if the real facts of the food situation were known, and therefore he decided to make use of Mr. Whymper to spread a contrary impression. This showed that he deceived others.
