Beatitudes means blessed or happy.
Answer:
B. Depressing
Explanation:
In the excerpt, the narrator is giving information about the previous and new place in which the characters are placed, and the general idea is that they were used to see property abandoned and dead animals (certainly not a very nice image). But, in this new place everything gets worse, and it turns out to be disturbing for the characters.
Yes, when you use context clues, you try to figure out what the word mens without looking up the meaning, You use clues in the particular text. You look for words surrounding it to give you an idea of what the word means.
A. unpleasant memories of Mary, who had burned protestants at the stake, remained
