Read this passage: "how can i get at it? " thought kovaloff. "everything the uniform, the hat, and so on show that it is a state-councillor. how the deuce has that happened? " he began to cough discreetly near it, but the nose paid him not the least attention. "honourable sir," said kovaloff at last, plucking up courage, "honourable sir." "what do you want? " asked the nose, and turned round. "it seems to me strange, most respected sir you should know where you belong and i find you all of a sudden where? judge yourself." "pardon me, i do not understand what you are talking about. explain yourself more distinctly." nikolai gogol, "the nose" what evidence from the text gives you the impression that kovaloff is intimidated by his nose? a. he has to gather his courage before he is able to speak to the nose. b. he is unable to say anything, and the nose leaves in confusion. c. he kisses the nose's hand and tells him how happy he is to meet him. d. he fearfully asks the nose if it is alright if he asks it a question.

Hurry i am on the semester test which theme is evident in this excerpt from robert frost's "mending wall"? but at spring mending-time we find them there. i let my neighbor know beyond the hill; and on a day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again. we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. my apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him. he only says, “good fences make good neighbors." spring is the mischief in me, and i wonder if i could put a notion in his head: "why do they make good neighbors? isn't it where there are cows? but here there are no cows. before i built a wall i'd ask to know what i was walling in or walling out, and to whom i was like to give offence. . " a. the human desire for material gain b. the influence of financial constraints c. the positive effects of friendship d. the uncertain nature of human relations e. the futility of human yearning