Answer:
King Croesus of Lydia (modern-day south-western Turkey) asked the oracle whether or not he should go to war on his neighbouring kingdom. The oracle replied that if he went to war, a great kingdom would fall. Croesus interpreted this as being his enemy's… it turned out to be his own.
Explanation:
A. The mystery around the monkey's paw is introduced
Hints of this lie in the adjectives such as "curiously" and the mention of "magic" which tells the reader that there might be something more to monkey's paw, and that maybe we should be curious.
America passed the intolerable acts after the Boston Tea Party, where colonists dressed as indians and threw tea overboard England's ships, because we were sick of the taxation. The intolerable Acts were a set of laws limiting what Britain could do.
