Which sentence uses the same meaning of the underlined word in the sentence below? spain's soccer players carefully girded themselves for the fifa world cup finals and won the victory! a. john-paul girded his brother gary when he ran his bicycle into the tree in the neighbor's yard. b. the pack of coyotes girded the sickly deer before it made an attack. c. samuel girded himself before he traveled across the european countryside. d. the cowgirl girded herself with her championship belt and buckle whenever she appeared in public.

the answers are:

1. dolores driscoll - b. first person minor

dolores is a minor character who happens to be driving the bus at the time of the accident. she narrates picking up each of the children and her last memory is the children being thrown around the bus.

2. billy ansel - a. first person major

billy loses his twins in the accident. he tells his own story, how he witnessed the accident and how he tried to the rescuers. he is a major character, as he is at the center of the story.

3. mitchell stephens - c. first person observer

mitchell enters the story after the accident. he is a lawyer who learns about the accident based on other characters observations. though he tells the story from a first person perspective, he is just an observer.

as for matcthing the message or lesson posted with the person who said them:

1."obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. i'm an optimist basically who acts like a pessimist. on principle. just in case." - dolores driscoll

2. "i could no longer believe even in life. . for me now the only reality was death." - billy ansel

- "chilles is sad and angry because hector, the trojan leader, killed his best friend patroclus. he seems angry with himself because he didn't or protect patroclus against the trojans."

i'm pretty sure i had this question the other day and b was the right answer.