Answer:
Good for you. Is that your hobby?
Explanation:
1.) In the Victorian era, drinking water was very contaminated. The water was contaminated with raw sewage that would get into the drinking water. This made thousands of people catch diseases, such as cholera, and pass away. The correct answer is A.
2.) The antonym for the word earnest will be frivolous. An antonym is when the word is the complete opposite of another word. For example, pretty and ugly. The correct answer is A.
3.) Algernon finds that Mary Farquhar is indecent because she flirted with her own husband at dinner. Algernon did not want to sit beside of her in the first place because it was a common occurrence for her flirt with her own husband across the tables. In that era, it was not common to show feelings in front of others. The correct answer is B.
4.) There were not any cucumber sandwiches for Lady Bracknell because Algernon had absentmindedly eaten the sandwiches while waiting for the guests to arrive. His butler told the guests there was not any cucumbers in the market that morning and was unable to make the sandwiches. The correct answer is A.
Explanation:
Really good with a lot of great vocabulary and a good of sentence structures. The paragraphs are very descriptive.
Answer: B. He is, for the first time, aware of the world as a bleak and savage place.
Explanation:
Pip heard a terrible voice only after he began to cry, so D is not a correct choice. His parents and brothers had died a long time before the event described in the excerpt (so B would be wrong). Pip was not lost on the marshes (so C would be wrong). The answer would be A.
Here is support in the text:
My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things, seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. At such a time I found out for certain, that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond, was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing, was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip."
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