Though I can't see all the answers here's my take:
The author was making a point that Voltaire's humor was not welcomed because it criticised their beliefs and the book was banned because it was full of his criticising humor that they did not appreciate.
Despondence- a feeling of dejection and depression
lamentations- an expression of regret or grief
solace- comfort during a period of sorrow
According to these definitions, the answer that makes most sense is c, because he would not find despondence or lamentation from having his favorite toy.
D. A line of safety goggles that damage the eyes
All Indo European languages have clearly defined parts of speech
Answer: Option 1
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Usually parts of speech are made up of components like verb, noun, pronoun, adverb, conjunction, interjection, articles, determiner etc. Being one of the largest and the category to bring in a lot of languages under its umbrella.
A lot of Indo European languages have owned such sentence components, except Latin and a handful of Slavic languages like Polish, Czech, and Bulgarian etc.
There are some languages which go beyond the Indo European list of languages like Finnish and Hungarian and they have an interesting part of speech called post-position.
