What enables amber to save the lifeboat in the story "school trip"?
a she trusts her students as her father told her to do.
b she uses the navigational skills that her father taught her.
c she remembers the importance of making rapid decisions in a crisis.
d she reminds herself to take control instead of asking others for .

part b: which sentence from the story best supports the answer to part a?
a a 21-year-old student teacher, she was all that stood between these children and a fiery fate—the wrecked space station behind them would hit earth's atmosphere in just a few minutes.
b her father had once said that survival was about quick choices: “darlin’, if you freeze, you’re lost.”
c “this is amber fairlight, teacher from orbital school 2721,” she said, “and i need you to take navigational control now.”
d quietly, calmly, she asked the captain what he wanted her to do.

Hurry i am on the semester test which theme is evident in this excerpt from robert frost's "mending wall"? but at spring mending-time we find them there. i let my neighbor know beyond the hill; and on a day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again. we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. my apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him. he only says, “good fences make good neighbors." spring is the mischief in me, and i wonder if i could put a notion in his head: "why do they make good neighbors? isn't it where there are cows? but here there are no cows. before i built a wall i'd ask to know what i was walling in or walling out, and to whom i was like to give offence. . " a. the human desire for material gain b. the influence of financial constraints c. the positive effects of friendship d. the uncertain nature of human relations e. the futility of human yearning