<span>D. She was especially distrustful of children who she believed were inclined to lie.</span>
Answer: “Amy, though the youngest, was the most important person, in her own opinion at least.”
The other sentences describes the girls’ appearances.
Part 1) The Civil War.
Part 2) he was a natural original secessionist meaning he was from one the states that withdrew from the union, and devoted to the “southern cause” and that they thought that the cause of the confederate states during the American Civil War were heroic, and not centered around slavery.