Answer:
Washington was frustrated because he didn’t have access to his files because they were abandoned in boarded up houses. 
Explanation:
Panicked clerks left the papers in boarded up houses during the plague. No one was sure of where they were and they were unwilling to risk their lives going house to house looking for them during a plague. 
 
        
             
        
        
        
39. A  (you just need to use context clues)
40. D 
41. B
42. C
        
                    
             
        
        
        
Assuming that you're referring to 'the rules of the game',
The reason why waverly's drawn to the elaborate secrets of chess is because she did not get a good overnight , and represent the relationship between her and her mother
        
             
        
        
        
Early poems were written in meter first of all to distinguish them from prose, from everything written like a text.
Also, usually these poems were sung as songs, using various musical instruments, so meter was important when it came to rhythm.