In paragraph 9, what the phrase "drew him on by artful questions" means is that he questioned him to try to gain privileged information.
He had to find out some information that was very important to him, so he started questioning him furtively so as to get to the bottom of things.
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Answer:
even though she was on the school track team.
Explanation:
a dependent clause is the part of a sentenc that wouldnt make sence on its own. "the boys didn’t think Dani could win the race" makes sence on its own, so its an independent clause
