The author's purpose in this passage is to inform. The author is informing the reader on how Elizabethans would typically store their food. It goes into details of differences between food types and some options for storing food and getting nourishment in summer and winter.
That wouldn't be considered taunting, the term for that would be an insult.
Anne henderson shows will power when the white girls try to make fun of her, and how one girl is so disrespectful that she does a handstand in a dress without any underwear on in front of ms. Henderson. Ms hendersons daughter is confused with this because her mom is letting them do it but she was taught not be disrespectful. At the end she realozes that her mother was demonstrating how someone who can stand all the burdens and obstacles given to you with willpower
8 times 10 = 80
80/2 = 40
The area is 40 inches.
