1.
“it is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms.”

which of these is nearest in meaning to the word importuning, as it is used in the passage above? (1 point)

attacking
chasing
pestering
examining

2.
“… and as far as we could see up the hill of the city, in a most horrid, malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire.”

which of these is nearest in meaning to the word horrid, as it is used in the passage above? (1 point)

fading
heartrending
heinous
precise

3.
getting the enormous television to the repair shop proved a lengthy and ponderous task. (1 point)

painful
unwieldy
futile
expensive

1.The correct answer here is “pestering”. Importuning actually means to pester or harass someone repeatedly for a period of time.  We see this here because they are constantly looking for alms which is actually a charity in the form of food or money.

2.The correct answer here is "heinous". “Horrid” is an adjective describing something that strikes fear into the hears of men, causes them to be afraid. Here a synonym and from the line we can see that the answer is “heinous” which also means something scary, odious which this fire is.

3.The correct answer here is "unwieldy". Ponderous means that something is extremely slow and tedious due to the excess load of the item being transported. Here “unwieldy” means also that as the television is enormous and hard to transport. So unwieldy is the synonym here.

the answer would be a

the answer is b "spewing black smoke", i took the test and got 100%   hope i