Based on that passage, I'd say the young man is active because he's jogging, and friendly he smiled in encouragement to elderly men. Nothing in the passage indicates that he is either intelligent or snobbish.
Mercenary- a professional soldier paid to fight for a country other than his own.
<span>Indigenous- people or groups that are native to a region
Polytheistic- a belief that many gods control the universe
Logographic- a system of writing in which signs or symbols represent meanings
Cataract- a series of rapids and waterfalls on a river
hope this helped!</span>
The first four are correct and make sense.
1) she wouldn't be able to act. plays at the time only featured male actors (even for female roles)
2) if she wanted to write, she'd probably have to take up a male pseudonym, since her work either wouldn't have been published or would have been rejected from mainstream acceptance during the time