Which excerpt from The Number Devil best shows that one purpose of Robert's character is to oppose the number devil?

“You sound as though you never went to school. Or maybe you are a teacher yourself?”
"How dumb can you get!" said Robert. "A colossal waste of time if you ask me. So get going! Scram! Shoo!"
"I'm sorry," Robert said meekly, though the whole thing was getting weirder and weirder.
"It's just that all those ones give me a headache. They actually make things more complicated than they are."

correct answers:

c. they use panels.

d. they include images and words.

e. they contain gutters.

- "these rights are natural and god-given to all men equally." (i disagree cuz i kind of think it's 'a' but who knows.)

explanation:

the intellectual community is a place like a university where people with high marks, or original thought or an outstanding interest in something gather. they take classes together. they discuss things. they argue sometimes, and not always in a friendly way. but if they argue, it is because they are passionate about something, and there is nothing the matter with that.

lately i've been hearing rumors that it is not the way it was when i went to school. the one thing all schools used to have was free speech. the 1st amendment rights were sacred. now i'm hearing they are not. students can be reported and disciplined for giving an off the wall opinion.

that is shameful.

intellectual ideas are meant to be discussed. they are meant to be chewed up and worked on. that is the primary responsibility of every intellectual community. if that is not the way it is, then that is not a school to go to.

social media, in my opinion, and this is just an opinion. i wouldn't take it too seriously, complicates everything to do with human communication. you can want to share things and others feel they have the right to be very critical or sarcastic or mean about what you share. lack of respect is an immeasurable intolerable condition and social media abounds with that sort of thing.

one of the things i really like about is how careful people are because they must have some idea that the mods are exactly what the word says they are. they police this board very well, and what is so remarkable about them is that they are no older than the average grade 12 student.

my hat goes off to them (which means i respect them quite a bit).

the most appropriate strategy would be to do a questions and answer type speech.