Option d) The church did not just reflect what was happening in society.
Explanation: a thermometer does not influence anything, just measures or reflects the temperature of something. Then the comparisson of the church with the thermometer is to establish whether it merely reflected something or did something else.
Answer: D) They had not seen the experiment, yet they knew the results.
Explanation: a conjunction is a an uninflected linguistic form used to connect clauses, phrases, words or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause, for example: and, if, so, yet, but, or, nor, etc. In the given sentence we can see an example of a conjunction in the word "yet" it is joining two independent clauses: "they had not seen the experiment" and "they knew the results."
B - Bravery
Although you didn't provide the passage, there are various reasons as to why bravery is the answer.
A is incorrect as the Odyssey never focused on democracy as shown through kings of many lands since Odysseus himself was the king of Ithaca with his son being the rightful heir of the throne.
C, knowledge, is incorrect as characters in the Odyssey never valued knowledge. The Odyssey was filled with battles and overcoming hardships, not gaining knowledge and wisdom, thus ruling out C as the possible answer.
D, relaxation, is an answer you can immediately rule out. Throughout the Odyssey, the stories and the movies, you can see that all characters are constantly bustling and working for whatever they hope to accomplish. Although they may value relaxation, they seem to value work more so.
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A. He reflects back and describes his initial optimism of the war.
Everyone initially feels that optimism going into a battle. The idea of victory is something easy to see. But it gives the idea that possibly it may not turn out exactly as he hopes in the final sentence.
The answer is Non stop. Because they constantly had something to chat about.
