Read the excerpt from “Homesick” by Jean Fritz. I knew that Andrea had begun to like boys. She said everyone at the Shanghai American School had a crush
on someone else and when your love was requited well, that was the cat's. What I couldn't understand was
how someone could be in love with John Gilbert and a kid in knickers at the same time.
I suppose Andrea could see that I was trying to figure out the boy business.
What is the narrator's most likely goal in this excerpt?
A. She is defending her perspective and future plans concerning boys.
B. She is explaining that other people's opinions do not influence her views.
C. She is expressing concern about her and her friend's difference of opinion.
D. She is exposing her difference in perspective and uncertainty related to boys.

Which statement best describes the use of satire in this passage? read the passage from chapter 7 of animal farm as clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. if she could have spoken her thoughts, it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race. these scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when old major first stirred them to rebellion. if she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak, as she had protected the lost brood of ducklings with her foreleg on the night of major's speech. instead-she did not know why—they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes. there was no thought of rebellion or parody is used to illustrate the impact of stalin's purge. ridicule is used to show the gullibility of the russian citizens. reversal is used to show how clover, representing the people, has changed ideals. personification is used to show the reader stalin's thoughts and feelings