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Answer:
1. give one example of the way smith praises his own good qualities
He speaks about how he takes on all of the heavy duties and relieves others of their burdens.
2. What impression of smiths do you get this from this account?
He is conceited and thinks highly of himself.
What is the question you were given to answer for your essay? Just asking because I need specificity ;)
It's basically telling you to write a sentence with that information.
The correct answer is were.
Since English grammar has this thing called the sequence of tenses, which means that if the first verb in the sentence is in the past tense, all following verbs will have to be in the past tense as well.
So here, the first verb is <em>knew, </em>which is the past simple tense of the verb <em>to know, </em>which means that the following verb <em>to be </em>also has to be given in the past. The past simple form of the verb <em>to be </em>for plural is WERE.
