The question is incomplete, here is the complete question:
Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.
WOMAN ONE
(a little reluctantly)
Well . . . sometimes I go to bed late at night. A couple of times . . . a couple of times I'd come out on the porch and I'd see Mr. Goodman here in the wee hours of the morning standing out in front of his house . . . looking up at the sky.
(she looks around the circle of faces.)
That's right looking up at the sky as if . . . as if he were waiting for something.
(a pause)
As if he were looking for something.
There's a murmur of reaction from the crowd again.
How does Woman One's claim about Les Goodman affect other elements in the story?
The neighbors become more sympathetic toward Les Goodman.
The neighbors become even more suspicious of Les Goodman.
The neighbors become less frightened of Les Goodman.
The neighbors become more protective of Les Goodman.
The correct answer is B. The neighbors become even more suspicious of Les Goodman.
Explanation
The fragment is a story about the perception of one of Mr. Les Goodman's neighbors. In this account he expresses that Mr. Les Goodman had a strange demeanor when he said that "I saw Mr. Goodman here in the early hours of the morning standing in front of his house ... looking up at the sky." According to this statement, it can be inferred that his neighbors are suspicious of this behavior by Mr. Les Goodman because it is not a common behavior. According to the above, the correct answer is B. The neighbors are even more suspicious of Les Goodman.
Answer:
Panama Canal, Spanish Canal de Panamá, lock-type canal, owned and administered by the Republic of Panama, that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow Isthmus of Panama. The length of the Panama Canal from shoreline to shoreline is about 40 miles (65 km) and from deep water in the Atlantic (more specifically, the Caribbean Sea) to deep water in the Pacific about 50 miles (82 km). The canal, which was completed in August 1914, is one of the two most strategic artificial waterways in the world, the other being the Suez Canal. Ships sailing between the east and west coasts of the United States, which otherwise would be obliged to round Cape Horn in South America, shorten their voyage by about 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km) by using the canal. Savings of up to 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km) are also made on voyages between one coast of North America and ports on the other side of South America. Ships sailing between Europe and East Asia or Australia can save as much as 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) by using the canal.
Importance:
Before the Panama Canal was built, ships traveling between the east and west coasts of the American continents had to go around Cape Horn in South America, a voyage that was some 8,000 nautical miles longer then going through the canal and that took about two months to complete. All journeys between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are shortened by thousands of nautical miles by going through the canal.
Toward the end of the 14th century AD, a handful of Italian thinkers declared that they were living in a new age. The barbarous, unenlightened “Middle Ages” were over, they said; the new age would be a “rinascità” (“rebirth”) of learning and literature, art and culture. This was the birth of the period now known as the Renaissance. For centuries, scholars have agreed that the Italian Renaissance (another word for “rebirth”) happened just that way: that between the 14th century and the 17th century, a new, modern way of thinking about the world and man’s place in it replaced an old, backward one. In fact, the Renaissance (in Italy and in other parts of Europe) was considerably more complicated than that: For one thing, in many ways the period we call the Renaissance was not so different from the era that preceded it. However, many of the scientific, artistic and cultural achievements of the so-called Renaissance do share common themes–most notably the humanistic belief that man was the center of his own universe.
A. The Nullification Crisis led to the promotion of federal power over states' rights.
It was actually outlined in the constitution that states could nullify laws, etc., they deemed that were wrong. However, when South Carolina decided to nullify a law, Andrew Jackson put a stop to it, causing the crisis and almost starting the war then and there. When, prior to the event, states still had a substantial amount of power, President Jackson's response caused states' rights to diminish under the authority of the federal government.
