Option d) The church did not just reflect what was happening in society.
Explanation: a thermometer does not influence anything, just measures or reflects the temperature of something. Then the comparisson of the church with the thermometer is to establish whether it merely reflected something or did something else.
Answer:
A synonym of morsel is small amount of food so for an example: bite, nibble, bit.
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The thesis statement would be created on the pre-write stage. So, the answer would be B.
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