"Are you sure you don't want to wear that?"
The non string one is the bassoon
Answer:
A friendly smile and a firm handshake<em> were</em> working well for Eric
Explanation:
A friendly smile and a firm handshake was working well for Eric.
this is wrong
because A friendly smile is different and a firm handshake is also different
so we need to use<em> were</em> instead of <em>was</em>
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<em>so a true sentence will be:</em>
A friendly smile and a firm handshake were working well for Eric.
It's definitely D.
It's for sure not C. And I've never read the full story, but this passage doesn't indicate a depressing mood of foreshadowing danger. And the vocabulary in the writing doesn't impact the story itself.