What challenges does Percy face in chapter 5 of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Select all that apply. the tang dynasty interacted with foreigners by: a letting them buy property in china. b accusing them of corruption and the downfall of the dynasty. c trading with them, especially japan and korea. d teaching them to become monks. e attacking them with military forces.

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

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