In paragraph 6 the word relics means

The correct answer is remnants.

Explanation:

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word relic has different meanings. One of them refers to and object that is associated to a saint or a martyr and it is venerated due to this.

Another definition is a survivor or a remanent left after something decays or disappears. Relic is also an outdated practice or belief.

Based on this definition, remnants can be used as a synonym of this word.

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.

the correct answer is a "it describes nora and mrs. linde's relationship". opcions b and d are not related to the content of the passage in any way. option c could be appropiate but it does not fully capture the effect of the dialogue, while option a is quite appropiate, since the dialogue not only exemplifies the relationship between the characters, but it also captures the effect in the excerpt. we get to know that mrs linde bosses around and already knows nora.