Which of the following is not considered an influential social trend?
a. educational disparity
b. recession
c. gender expectations
d. family size

Read these sentences from edgar allan poe's "the angel of the odd": it was a chilly november afternoon. i had just consummated an unusually hearty dinner, of which the dyspeptic truffe formed not the least important item, and was sitting alone in the dining-room with my feet upon the fender and at my elbow a small table which i had rolled up to the fire, … which element of this text suggests the events happened long ago? details about a fire descriptions of the furniture use of first-person narrator word choice and word order

The author’s purpose for including this in the introduction is

Which sentence best summarizes this excerpt from book 21 of the odyssey?