Answer:
I believe it means that the car was silent because the man wasn't talking.
Explanation:
Hasty?
it means acting with excessive speed or urgency
The sentence that is correctly hyphenated is "The beauty of Mount Fuji's near-perfect cone shape has enchanted people for centuries."
Near-perfect is correctly hyphenated because in this context it is a compound modifier, it modifies Mount Fuji's appearance.
"Friday is the best day of the week" is an opinion