It means to properly understand what the writer means (and assume their intentions, feelings)
B. he is savage and brutal like a wild animal
He is compared to a mountain lion, a wild animal
There are choices included in this question.
<span>A. a mother and child were made out of clay.
B. a little girl fell from a cloud.
C. a man and a woman were made out of mud.
D. a young man was formed from sea foam.
The Old Man made the first people by: A. A MOTHER AND CHILD WERE MADE OUT OF CLAY. </span>
Excerpt from: Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
THERE was no use in arguing with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with me. But the result was just the same. I never could more than get one knotty thing learned before another presented itself. Now I had often seen pilots gazing at the water and pretending to read it as if it were a book; but it was a book that told me nothing. A time came at last, however, when Mr. Bixby seemed to think me far enough advanced to bear a lesson on water-reading. So he began—
What conclusion can you make from the first paragraph?
A) Mr. Bixby dislikes the narrator.
B) The narrator is angry with Mr. Bixby.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
D) Mr. Bixby thinks the narrator is stubborn.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
