The correct answer for this question is that: "c. They think he is a bit peculiar, yet they revere him." Based on this excerpt, we can infer about Oliver’s neighbors is that t<span>hey think he is a bit peculiar, yet they revere him.</span>
Here are the following choices. <span>a. They spread gossip about his unusual conduct. b. They consider him a talented man and good friend. c. They think he is a bit peculiar, yet they revere him. d. They worry about his excessive behaviors.</span>
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<span>They laughed at his wild excess of speech, of feeling, and of gesture. They were silent before the maniac fury of his sprees, which occurred almost punctually every two months, and lasted two or three days. They picked him foul and witless from the cobbles, and brought him home . . . . And always they handled him with tender care, feeling something strange and proud and glorious lost in [him]. . . . He was a stranger to them: no one—not even Eliza—ever called him by his first name. He was—and remained thereafter—"Mister" Gant. . . .
</span>A. They spread gossip about his unusual conduct. B. They consider him a talented man and good friend. C. They think he is a bit peculiar, yet they revere him. D. They worry about his excessive behaviors.
The excerpt would tell us that Oliver's neighbors (C) think he is a bit peculiar, yet they revere him.
We know that the neighbors think Oliver is peculiar or strange through the first half of the excerpt and from the line "he was a stranger to them". Despite this strangeness though, we can also infer that the neighbors revere or deeply respect him because they still "handled him with tender care".
A central idea is a main point that the author is making aka a main idea or a key idea. In other words, a central idea is what the article is mostly about. You can think of a central idea as a thesis statement: one sentence that states what the article is about. A text could have more than one central idea.
