What do the last two sentences in this excerpt from charles dickens's oliver twist suggest about parish officials?

1.they did not know how to perform their duties.
2.they deliberately ignored the suffering of the parish children.
3.they were haughty men who considered themselves very important.
4.they had a poor opinion of the woman who looked after the children.
5.they wanted to give the impression that they were performing their work.

Read the stanza below from the poem “tattoo” by gregg shapiro and answer the question that follows. if i could trade places with him i would pad the rest of his days wrap him in gauze and velvet absorb the shocks and treat his wounds i would scrub the numbers from his flesh extinguish the fire and give him back his life what does shapiro use to create the conceit in the lines above? a) he carries one line of poetry onto the next. b) he paints vivid word pictures that trigger the imagination by appealing to the five senses. c) he directly expresses a metaphor using like, as, or than. d) he uses physical protection to represent emotional protection.

This summer, stretched on well into fall, yielded a rich crop a. which b. itself c. whose d. those

In the story “ one thousand dollars,” robert gillian forfeits a 50,000 inheritance. what is the theme expressed by the author in this story ?