Answer:
The aunt tells a story with a moral, but the children ignore the lesson.
Explanation:
From the text we know that the children already acknowledge the poor storytelling abilities of their aunt and thus do not expect much from the story.
Despite the boring nature of the story, the aunt does try to lacklusterly include a moral, but the moral is completely ignored by the children who notice instead the many faults of the story.
I would say b and c, since unfasten and clench are basically antonyms and those answers both have antonyms
Answer:
The last one "a novel about a woman’s life during the Indian independence movement in the early 1900s"
Explanation:
Because it is focused more on the culture and about the person's life in that country at the time of a historical period.
In paragraph 9, what the phrase "drew him on by artful questions" means is that he questioned him to try to gain privileged information.
He had to find out some information that was very important to him, so he started questioning him furtively so as to get to the bottom of things.
