Various foods are eaten with the fingers instead of fork or spoon. bread, for instance, is never cut but always broken into small pieces and lifted to the mouth with the fingers. butter is seldom provided at the formal dinner, but if it is, each little piece of bread is buttered individually just before it is eaten. crackers and cake are eaten in the same way; although some cakes and pastries are eaten with the fork. those that can be eaten daintily with the fingers such as macaroons, lady-fingers, cookies, etc., should be eaten so while layer cake and elaborate pastries should be eaten with the fork.

what is the author's purpose in writing this passage?
a) to inform
b) to persuade
c) to frighten
d) to entertain

Read the following passage: he roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. the pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue— but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. the once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance. there were times, indeed, when i thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage. which of the above ideas might be considered foreshadowing? he is wandering all over the chamber his skin tone is really pale his voice is quivering the narrator thinks he is laboring with an oppressive secret