<span> 1) limited omniscient perspective, because she made an inference. (she didn't see with her own eyes)
2) The mom, because "</span><span>“Not so fast, Lara,” I intoned. I stood in the kitchen, staring out the window, with my hands planted firmly on the laminated counter. “Not before you and your brothers make your beds and clean your room.”"
3) There really was a bear
4)"</span><span>I heard the kids grumbling as they did what surely would have been five minutes' work for me, whining that, as they labored, their precious lake was evaporating forever into the mists of time." The lake won't evaporate that fast.
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hope this helps
will write part 2 in comments
