Read the excerpt from "violets". which statement best summarizes the implicit message in the excerpt?

The phrase, "the longest journey begins with a single step" means

Choose the letter of the word that most clearly expresses the tone in each passage. if you are unfamiliar with any of the words, look them up before you select the correct answer. we have come together this afternoon to mourn the deaths of sixteen miners—our friends and neighbors—who were trapped by fire yesterday, deep below the earth. they lived bravely and they died too soon, leaving behind grieving wives and bewildered children. we bid them a final farewell. question 1 options: forgiving sorrowful angry amused

The missionaries who appear in the novel are colonist britain, portugal, spain, or italy?