read the following excerpt from the article "vision, voice and the power of creation: an author speaks out," by t. a. barron and answer the question that follows:

right now, i am spending a lot of time listening to the voice of a particularly compelling character: the young merlin. in the end, i finally heard the voice of merlin to a surprising source: the haunting, mysterious hooting of a great horned owl outside the window of my colorado home. as i listened to that owl's resonant [echoing] call in the pre-dawn hours one morning, something about it gave me a whole new cadence [rhythm], a whole new sound. and then, a whole new voice.

which adjective supports the author's explicit message about his inspiration for merlin's voice?

a young
b mysterious
c new
d whole

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Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. the day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. . he could only think of judgment day, of noah and forty days of rain. and yet it was so quiet, so still. nothing moved. he sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. nothing. as he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. why does the author include the details of zeitoun’s morning? to suggest the hopelessness of zeitoun’s situation to illustrate the solitary existence endured by survivors to establish zeitoun’s dedication to the rituals of his faith to reveal the military’s attempts at assistance

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