Question

Read the excerpt from A History of the World in 100 Objects.

Answer 1

The correct answer is C: to make the reader visualize the coin and become interested in learning more about the culturally significant artifact

Answer 2

Answer:

to make the reader visualize the coin and become interested in learning more about the culturally significant artifact.

Explanation:

By describing you first the object, then that it was illegal to do what they had done to it, and then the way of protesting he wants the reader to be interested first in the penny, but as the text progresses he wants you to start paying more attention to the other important details that the penny brought with it.