The answer is “Topical.” I have to make this 20 characters long, but the answer is topical.
Answer:
to suggest that children consider the lottery a game and do not understand it
Explanation:
According to the passage from "The Lottery", the narrator describes school being over for the summer and how uneasy the children were feeling about their liberty.
He describes Bobby Martins and some other boys picking up the smoothest and roundest stones and gathering them in a pile and guarding them.
Therefore, the most likely purpose of depicting how the boys are collecting the stones is that to suggest that children consider the lottery a game and do not understand it
Answer:
D Pennsylvania's oldest church is in Southwark, and it was opened in 1640.
Explanation:
The word "and" introduces two ideas and appears to indicate that they are separate. While all the other choices use words such as "but" and "so", indicating that the two clauses are logically related, this one does not. However, the date the church was opened does closely relate to it being the oldest church. One would expect the word "for" rather than "and"...
I am not certain of this answer, but that is what I would imagine. I would eliminate B and C straightaway. Choice A seems to say that even though Philadelphia was founded later, its settlement Southwark was actually inhabited before.
Hope it helps :)
