I'm not sure if you meant "The boys are pulling the rope" or "The boy is pulling the rope" but the answer is either "The rope is being pulled by the boys" or "The rope is being pulled by the boy" respectively.
 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer: To entertain
Explanation:
This passage has a funny and humorous tone. Alonzo is describing that pizza is a good breakfast in one entertaining way while his mother is shocked.
He is explaining this to her in one entertaining and also ironic way because he knows that it is not good for breakfast but he is trying to be entertaining.
He is describing what thing pizza has and that those things are the same whether you eat it combined or separately.
 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:  
A. He was afraid that white people would not buy his book if he wrote positively about Native Americans.
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1.Validity is the extent to which a concept, conclusion or measurement is well-founded and likely corresponds accurately to the real world.
2. Credibility comprises the objective and subjective components of the believability of a source or message.
3. a brief statement or account of the main points of something
4. A paraphrase is a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words
5.quoting is repeating or copying out (a group of words from a text or speech)
6.Plagiarism is the representation of another author's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work
 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:
In the given passage, the word puncheon refers to a smoothed log used during summer time as this is cool.
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This extract, taken from Twain's Huckleberry Finn, is trying to create a scene, where the protagonist enters the church and finds a dog (hog) or two inside the church. He is trying to say that dogs like smooth logs to sleep on as they become very cool during the night on any summer day. Therefore, the word puncheon, here, describes a smoothed log.