No I would say that neither are good but Jones at least didn't use whips or stuff like that. Napoleon tried stealing ideas from other people and killed lots of animals.
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I would say that the example of satire among these options is d. Those two old brothers had been having a pretty hot argument a couple of days before, and had ended by agreeing to decide it by a bet, which is the English way of settling everything.
Twain is criticizing and mocking the English for settling everything in such a trivial manner as betting.
The google definition of the verb exact is "to demand and obtain from someone"
This leads me to believe that the answer would be C. take by force.
It’s because we as humans find entertainment in other things, or perhaps in other situations we just don’t want to do the work because it’s tiring.