The answer should be Theme is not the moral of a story.
The answer is monster, as the text itself even compares it to a monster.
"The USS Alabama, built in 1942, is a monster weighing in at 35,000 tons."
Answer:
The noun the underlined participle modifies is:
b. aspects.
Explanation:
In the sentence we are analyzing here, there is a present participle, "troubling". A present participle is formed by adding -ing to a verb stem (interesting, caring, loving, etc.). Present and past participles can function as adjectives, modifying nouns or pronouns in a sentence. That is precisely the case here, where "troubling" is modifying the noun "aspects", attributing a quality to it. For that reason, we can choose letter B as the best option.
The correct answer is: It helps the reader understand how precious friends and family are to slaves.
Indeed, slavery was a complex issue and several situations were possible for slaves. They would prefer not to escape and abandon dear friends and family. They would escape in order to later come and help friends and family escape. They would not have any friends or family but were too afraid to attempt escape. They would have no friends and family and thus would attempt escape.
The only constant value within these options is that they would always value friends and family if they had them.
Best known for his scholarship on how religion shapes ethical, cultural and political practices, his literary legacy includes “Religion in Human Evolution” (2011), “Tokugawa Religion”(1957),”The Broken Covenant” (1975) and “Beyond Belief” (1970).
