A. This quote shows that Miranda empathizes with people. It states that she suffers when they suffer. It upset her to watch someone else be hurt.
Answer:
A. The South seceded because it felt Lincoln would abolish slavery.
B. South Carolina seceded because southern states felt that Lincoln had not won the southern election and was not their true leader.
Explanation:
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President Lincoln was a Republican which was an abolitionist party and he had made many speeches condemning slavery. When he was elected president therefore, Southern states believed that he would abolish slavery due to his opposition to it.
The South could not accept this and also believed that Lincoln was not a President of the nation as he didn't win many votes in the South. This prompted South Carolina to declare secession and they were followed by other Southern states.
Answer:
C. Kuno’s prediction and Vashti’s revisiting of the prediction
Explanation:
The book "The Machine Stops" is a short story that describes people who live underground and are solely dependent on a machine to solve the physical and spiritual needs.
Vashti is one of the inhabitants along with her son Kuno. Vashti is an obedient follower of the machine and its actions and decisions but Kuno is a rebel who is not happy with the way things are run underground and is eager to leave.
He tries to escape but is caught and forced to stay back, then subsequently he begins to see defects in the Machine and predicts its collapse, Vashti brushes aside his predictions even though they become more glaring each day.
Eventually when the defects become too much, Vashti revistists the prediction of Kuno and begins to brood. This causes suspense and confusion.
Yikes: Interjection. A word to express emotion. In this case kind of frightened.
Huge: Adjective specifies the quality size or amount of nouns or pronouns. In this case very big.
Test. Common noun. These are generic names of things, animals, persons or places.
On Friday. Preposition, specifies location (place) or location in time.
Barely. Adverb, also used to describe adjectives verbs or another adverb. In this case barely is describing the verb study.
Studied. Simple Past tense of verb Study.
