<span>We could not give her those glib assurances that naive souls make so easily to others concerning their after state. …
The narrator is making it clear here that he does not believe in an after life. He says that he cannot assure Mrs. Herd that she was going anywhere in an "after state" because he thinks people who say things like that are being 'glib' and 'naive'. </span>
B. He is good natured.
It tells us that he is cheerful and jolly and that he wants to be good to those around him unlike his uncle
I believe it is A. I don't know what "The Odyssey" is, but I believe this is the best answer. Vain: producing no result, useless.
He wrote you a letter yesterday.
This sentence has a compound subject.
A compound subject contains more than one subject - as you can see here, there are two subjects: Jason AND Raci, which makes this subject a compound one (made of at least 2 entities). Nothing else is compound in this sentence.
