20 POINTS QUICK! Part A

Based on "A Harrowing Escape," which inference can be made about why the guardsman allows Cornelia to step off into the woods alone?

He thinks she is unfamiliar with the woods.
He knows no one is chasing them so no one can help her.
He is confident he can catch her if she tries to escape.
He does not realize that she has figured out who he really is.

Question 2

Part B

Which two details from the passage best support the inference in Part A?

"There'd been sounds and noise, but she hadn't seen any enemy soldiers or heard fighting, just shouting."
"'Take your time, Princess,' came an unworried reply."
"She looked over her shoulder and shuddered, pretending to be afraid of pursuit."
"And her parents would hardly send such a young person to rescue her."

If your job was precarious, would you look for a new one? explain.

In one sentence of approximately 15 to 25 words, write the main idea that thomas paine wants to convert to all the readers of the declaration of independence

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.