What is most closely a central or main idea in the following passage (paragraph 13)? I walked back to our station wagon and got in the backseat, and my dad drove away. My parents didn’t say one word. Not a single word. The silence cut into me like a knife to the heart. They were ashamed of me and for me. My dad had been captain of the football team. My mom had been head of her drill team. I was nothing. My parents, especially my father, valued being cool and fitting in above all else. I was not cool. I didn’t fit in. Answer choices for the above question

A. Both of the author’s parents valued sports very highly.
B. The author’s parents express their disappointment through silence.
C. The author’s failure to make the team made her an outcast in her family.
D. What the author’s parents thought is not important to her.

Whatever crawls in is trapped. is the noun clause - whatever crawls? is the function of the noun clause the subject of the verb trapped?

Which of the following best explains what market forces are? a. the properties of a free-market system that determine what the outcomes will be. b. the decisions of the government that decide what will be produced. c. the ways that producers coerce consumers into buying at the highest price possible. d. the laws that govern whether a producer will be able to buy low and sell high.

Read the following excerpt from the declaration of independence: when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. the history of the present king of great britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations to prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. he has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. how do the authors of the declaration best use deductive reasoning to support the idea that the colonists have a right to form a new government? o a. they first establish the widely accepted belief that governments derive their power from the people. o o b. they list the colonists' grievances against the british monarchy, starting with the king's refusal to "assent to laws." o c. they first establish the idea that declaring one's intentions is a decent and expected measure. o d. they follow his initial statement by pointing out that the colonists do not take these measures lightly.