Answer:
B) to stand stiffly
Explanation:
The best meaning for the word "bristle" as used in the passage is TO STAND STIFFLY because from the narration given, not long after the dog had seen him, he stood stiffly and began to growl.
The word "bristle" as a noun means a short hair on the skin of an animal, however the meaning of the word as a noun is to "stand stiffly" which was what the dog did because it was an action, not a noun.
Considering you haven't given the actual excerpts, some help would be that direct characterization is as simple as saying "The man is wearing a broad-brimmed hat". It is literally "direct", straight to the point. Hope this helps.
Answer:
Paine's opinion is that God will not allow the colonists to be conquered because they have tried so hard to avoid war.
Explanation:
"(...)<u>my secret opinion</u> has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war(...)"
That's the key opinion of the excerpt from Thomas Paine's essay. The rest of the phrases and sentences are arguments or secondary key points that derivates from that principal statement: As we have sought to avoid the calamities of war, God Almighty won't give us destruction.
