Read this excerpt from the exposition in "The Monkey's Paw." -
Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from the white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire.
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What is one piece of information you can infer about the story from this sentence?

A. The father is playing chess with the son, but the son is not old enough to know the rules.

B. The woman in the story is knitting, so the characters probably don't have good clothes to wear.

C. Since the father likes taking risks in a game, he might like taking risks in life as well.

D. The father in the story is possessed, so he probably says insane things a lot.

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Create an accurate summary of the “goodbye” scene between marylin and her brother in “the cold equations”

Which excerpt from the war of the worldseffectively reveals how the author relates the climax of the narrative through the narrator's thoughts? the war of the worldsall this had happened with such swiftness that i had stood motionless, dumbfounded and dazzled by the flashes of light. had that death swept through a full circle, it must inevitably have slain me in my surprise. but it passed and spared me, and left the night about me suddenly dark and unfamiliar. and then, with a renewed horror, i saw a round, black object bobbing up and down on the edge of the pit. it was the head of the shopman who had fallen in, but showing as a little black object against the hot western sun. at that time it was quite clear in my own mind that the thing had come from the planet mars, but i judged it improbable that it contained any living creature. i thought the unscrewing might be automatic. my mind ran fancifully on the possibilities of its containing manuscript, on the difficulties in translation that might arise, whether we should find coins and models in it, and so forth. yet it was a little too large for assurance on this idea. i felt an impatience to see it opened.