Read the following passage: In the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and twelve, at
the village of Christchurch, the members of our
congregation were first visited by the spirits.
Which statement best explains the relationship between the author's choice
to begin the story this way and the effect it has on the reader?
A. Beginning the story with something that’ll happened in the past
leads the reader to assume that he or she will be familiar with the
events to come.
B. The inclusion of a specific location leads the reader to suspect
that the story will be a social critique.
C. The inclusion of a supernatural element leads the reader to
recognize this story as being concerned with spiritual matters.
D. The tone of the language leads the reader to understand that the
story will be relayed by a figure of authority.

At a restaurant, one small drink costs $1.15 and one large drink costs $1.75 a family buys three small drinks and two large drinks. before tax, what is the total cost for the drinks at this restaurant

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Read the excerpt from cristina garcia’s dreaming in cuban. i don’t really want to talk about my father but i end up telling minnie how he used to take me horseback riding on our ranch, strapping me in his saddle with a leather seat belt he designed just for me. dad’s family owned casinos in cuba, and had one of the largest ranches on the island. there were beef cattle and dairy cows, horses, pigs, goats, and lambs. dad fed them molasses to fatten them, and gave the chickens corn and sorghum until they laid vermilion eggs, rich with vitamins. he took me on an overnight inspection once. we camped out under a sapodilla tree and listened to the pygmy owls with their old women’s voices. my father knew i understood more than i could say. he told me stories about cuba after columbus came. he said that the spaniards wiped out more indians with smallpox than with muskets. how does the structure of the excerpt add meaning to the passage? it includes historical information about the spaniards and indians to indicate the work is nonfiction. it describes the setting of the ranch owned by pilar’s cuban grandparents to explain family values. it uses several narrators to share their points of view about past and present life in cuba. it manipulates the chronological order of events to reveal the close relationship between pilar and her father.