The Socs and greasers choose to have the rumble in a vacant lot in greaser territory, because the lots is a less conspicuous place where they hoped the cops would not break up the fight.
Answer:
teach readers about a code system used during the American Revolution.
Explanation:
The lines "He substituted digits for words that would be used in messages. "Long Island," for example, was 728, "arms" was 7, and "city" was 88. There was a number for each month, such as 341 for "January." indicate that the author wants to teach the reader about a code system used during the American Revolution.
Also, the rest of the options don't make any sense whatsoever.
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He went to London and sold his plays, and since his style of writing was unique, so people were interested in him.
The author quickens the pace of the story to build suspense in the excerpt.
