What effect does Gandolf's sign outside Bilbo's door in Chapter 1 have on the plot of The Hobbit? It creates exposition that provides background information on historical burglars.

It creates the rising action by announcing to the rest of the hobbits that Bilbo has agreed to act as burglar.

It creates a complicating incident because it leads the dwarves to think Bilbo has already agreed to join their mission.

It creates conflict by inciting a fight between Bilbo and the dwarves about the burglar's role.

Need ! how is richard characterized by alger in this excerpt from the passage? "to complete his costume he wore a coat too long for him, dating back, if one might judge from its general appearance, to a remote antiquity." he is exciting. he is intelligent. he is comical. he is happy.

Based on part two of trifles, which of the following images most reinforces the them of loneliness that exists throughout the play?

One of the author’s purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted . . in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with . . enormous speed