Based on what the author of "what's black and white and red all over? " states about the unanswered riddle in lewis carroll's alice's adventures in wonderland, what can be inferred about carroll's readers? a. they knew that the hatter's riddle was one that did not have an answer. b. they very much wanted to know the answer to the hatter's riddle. c. they each came up with their own answers to the hatter's riddle. d. they had heard the hatter's riddle many times before reading it in carroll's book.

But we pulled at the grill [on the ground] and it gave way. and then we saw iron rings as steps leading down a shaft into a darkness without bottom. … it was a great tunnel. its walls were hard and smooth to the touch; it felt like stone, but it was not stone. on the ground there were long thin tracks of iron, but it was not iron; it felt smooth and cold as glass. we knelt, and we crawled forward, our hand groping along the iron line to see where it would lead. but there was an unbroken night ahead. what is the most likely explanation for the walls described in the bold text?

What key in the reading of ancient text modern readers better understand

What is a ridge of rock near the water's edge