Read this sentence from “Cub Pilot on the Mississippi.” If I had two heads, I would have spoken; but as I had only one, it seemed judicious
to take care of it; so I kept still.

Based on the context, what does it mean if a person is judicious?

a. He or she is careful.
b. He or she is reckless.
c. He or she is thrilled.
d. He or she is nervous.

Line 1 of this excerpt features a strong example of

Which except is told from first-person point of view

Read the following passage: he roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. the pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue— but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. the once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance. there were times, indeed, when i thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage. which of the above ideas might be considered foreshadowing? he is wandering all over the chamber his skin tone is really pale his voice is quivering the narrator thinks he is laboring with an oppressive secret