In all the parish there was no goodwife should offering make before her, on my life; and if one did, indeed, so wroth was she it put her out of all her charity. her kerchiefs were of finest weave and ground; i dare swear that they weighed a full ten pound which, of a sunday, she wore on her head. her hose were of the choicest scarlet red, close gartered, and her shoes were soft and new. bold was her face, and fair, and red of hue. she'd been respectable throughout her life, with five churched husbands bringing joy and strife, not counting other company in youth; but thereof there's no need to speak, in truth. based on this passage, and what you know of medieval society, which best describes the wife of bath? a. a charitable, well-dressed divorcee b. an extravagant, lustful, veteran widow. c. a passionate advocate for woman's rights d. a typical representation of middle class wifehood.

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator

Which statement describes how connotationis used in this passage

Which sentence uses the present progressive tense of drink