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The answer is "He was bad enough in all conscience, but the Devil himself could not temp him to turn slave-trader. Satirical is a synonym for sarcastic. So when the Author says that Tom Walker could not be tempted by the Devil he does not literally mean "The Devil" but he means that he is too morally upright to become a slave-trader.
Life is the correct ansswer
I would go with the last sentence.
The question is whether those phrases are speaking of the same person :
<span>A. her friend and former room-mate
- this is the same person, if it was two people, it'd be "and her"
B. </span><span>the winner and still champion
-again, the same person, requires singular verb
C.</span><span>The chief and foremost expert
-again, the same person: requires a singular verb and actually has a singular verb, correct answer!
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