Read the following passage from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock"
the muttering retreats
of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
and sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
streets that follow like a tedious argument
of insidious intent
which words from this passage best demonstrate the speaker's feeling that
life is tiresome and dull?
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a. streets that follow
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b. restaurants with oyster-shells
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c. restless nights
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d. tedious argument

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

a

explanation:

the correct answer would b,   to show that she was very influential in the democratic party.