The answer:
Contemporary Portland, Oregon is the location of the settling of the passage, the key sentence is the e-mails grew briefer and less frequent. E-mails started to be used in 1971, this locates the passage in a contemporary time. The word contemporary talks about a present time or something that is happening right now.
A fishing community in Portland, Maine can't be selected as the correct answer because the passage doesn't present any information about commercial business in the area.
California during World War II can't be selected as correct either because of two reasons. First of all, we have the sentence -Then, Celeste moved to California - which shows that they were not located in California in the main part of the passage. Secondly, we have the sentence -Celeste wrote to say that she would be coming north to Portland by train for an interview at the university that she expected to attend-. During the war the role of women was focused on helping the army as nurses or even sometimes soldiers, collegue was not a common option for all women as it is now.
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Answer:
A. The new school directory out; it contains the names and phone numbers of all the students in the school
Changing the sentence from a very long sentence into a short and choppy helps the suspense by not giving the reader a lot of information and making them really think and wonder.
For example:
"The stranger watched, a look in his eyes and this feeling spread throughout my body."
or
"There was a man watching, his blue eyes had this look in them that made me shiver with fear. His pale face held no emotion and made him seem as if he was just a corpse standing on his own."
The second one might sound better, yes, but the second one really makes you think and really builds the suspense.
"Who is this stranger? What does he look like? What feeling spread throughout their body?"
So instead of knowing a lot about this stranger, you know little to nothing and it really makes you want to know more, and definitely build the suspense.
