I knew I could never let Mom hear the messages, because protecting her is one my most important raisons d’etre, so what I did was I took Dad’s emergency money from on top of his dresser, and I went to Radio Shack on Amsterdam. It was on a TV there that I saw that the first building had fallen. I bought the exact same phone and ran home and recorded our greeting from the first phone onto it. —Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,
Jonathan Safran Foer

“darkness” is straightforward and detailed and more conversational than melodic. true or false

Which sentence is written using formal language? a) erin has a crucial appointment early monday morning. b) that was a real bogus tale charlie told the teacher. c) let me have a sneak-peak or i am simply gonna explode. eliminate d) i do not think tim will be here today; he's playing hookie.

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.