Ad’s sudden chattiness was shocking until I thought about why he was telling me so much. In the car, I was a captive audience. I
n order to learn to drive, it was a requirement that I sit and listen to his every word. In all the years that I had wondered why my father never spoke that much, I had never stopped to consider the possibility that it was because I had never bothered to listen. Look at this sentence from the above paragraph: “In the car, I was a captive audience.” The author uses this sentence to explain how her driving lessons * A.Made her feel helpless.
B.Gave her father a chance to speak.
C.Became deeply interesting to her.
D.Gave her father a chance to show off his skills.
This scheme forced the national government to pass the Indian Removel Act on May 28, 1830, in which President Jackson agreed to divide the United States territory west of the Mississippi into districts for tribes to replace the land from which they were removed.
