What was the first thing that cast doubt on the authenticity of the king being peter wilks's english brother? his refusal to answer questions his arrival in town in a canoe his illiteracy and inability to write (wrong answer) his lack of knowledge about the wilks family

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Several people in the crowd interrupted and begged him not to talk that way to an old man and a preacher.

“Preacher be hanged, he’s a fraud and a liar. He was up at the Pint that mornin’. I live up there, don’t I? Well, I was up there, and he was up there. I see him there. He come in a canoe, along with Tim Collins and a boy.”“Preacher, my butt—he’s a fraud and a liar. He was up at the point in the morning. I live up there, don’t I? Well, I was up there, and so was he. I saw him up there. He came in a canoe along with Tim Collins and a boy.”

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.