Read the sentence from A Girl Named Zippy. I felt that there was so much more to the town than its trappings.

Why does the author use the word “trappings” to describe places in Mooreland?

to describe the exciting activities there
to show that people could not leave the town
to express that she loved growing up there
to explain that there weren’t a lot of choices the

Which best describes why regina tells the group, “i explained to ben that perhaps you hadn’t answered his letters because you didn’t think he was offering you enough, and that the time was getting short and you could guess how much he needed you—”? to make horace feel as though he deserves a portion of the credit to reassure ben that she was telling the truth about her motives to convince ben that he has been wise to trust what she has said to pacify horace before he gets angry about what she has done mark this and return