Excerpt from “The Cloak”

How does Petrovich represent the value of friendship in Russian culture as portrayed in this text?

A. by providing an example of the ups and downs in friendships
B. by proving convenient friends are less important than warm clothes
C. by offering assistance and encouragement and treating friends fairly
D. by showing friendships exist until pulled apart by conflicts over money

Read the first stanza of wallace stevens's 'the anecdote of the jar' below: i placed a jar in tennessee, and round it was, upon a hill. it made the slovenly wilderness surround that hill. which of these is the best paraphrase of the stanza? o a. when i placed a jar outside in tennessee, it seemed to dominate all of nature. o b. the round jar i put on a hill looked strange amidst the wildness of nature o c. i put a round jar on a hill in tennessee, and the jar made the wilderness surround it. o d. i placed a jar on a round, wilderness-covered hill in tennessee.