PART A: What does the phrase “and the careful monitoring of surplus” imply about the Fertile Crescent in paragraph 2?

A
The region didn’t have enough resources to support its people and so all resources available were carefully monitored.
B
The region was very well governed because everything was watched over very carefully.
C
The region produced more resources than it needed and was able to trade its excess with other countries.
D
The region was afraid of flood and famine and always worked to ensure that its citizens had resources to survive.

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

What can you infer about gregor from this excerpt? a. he is ungrateful and refuses to eat all of the food that grete brings for him b. his appetite is good, which shows that his body is trying to return to human form c. he always eats trash, and grete is trying to get him to remember being human d. his eating habits are changing, and he is becoming physically less human

What was the primary message that dr. martin luther king jr wanted to communicate in the telegram he sent to chavez