Answer:
B. States an opinion
Explanation:
A) is incorrect you want to save that for the very end when you restate your thesis in conclusion.
C) is incorrect. You support your topic sentences in your middle body paragraphs.
D) is incorrect because your answers to any questions should and will be in the BODY of your essay not your very beginning statement.
Answer:
Because although he believes that his son should not smoke, he does not think that smoking is such a serious and hateful sin that the boy is severely punished.
Explanation:
"Home" by, Anton Chekhov is a story that addresses the relationship between father and son and their conversation about the dangers of stimulating smoking.
In this story, Yevgeny Petrovitch Bykovsk discovers, through the housekeeper, that his seven-year-old son was caught smoking cigars from his father's drawer. The father calls his son to talk about how this habit is wrong for such a young boy, but he has difficulties in punishing the child because he does not think he has done anything serious and hateful.
I'm assuming the word is prodigious in which case your answer is A. enormous
