Which statement best analyzes the role this event plays in The Necklace plot? “Oh, my poor Mathilde! Why, my necklace was paste! It was worth at most only five hundred francs!”

It leads to the resolution where Mathilde learns (a little too late) a lesson about the downfall that can come from vanity and greed.

It is the climax of the story since the reader is most excited at this point.

It serves as a complicating incident because Mathilde will have to suffer the consequences of her actions.

It serves as the falling action because it shows that Mathilde will have to get used to her place in life.

Read the following excerpt and answer the question. "i can think of no one objection, that will possibly be raised against this proposal, unless it should be urged, that the number of people will be thereby much lessened in the kingdom." (a modest proposal) the implicit meaning of the text is a. there are no reasonable objections to the author's proposal. b. the overpopulation problem is so dire that selecting some humans to be a food source is a just solution. c. a disadvantage of the proposal is that there will be fewer people under the monarchy. d. the situation in ireland is so bad that it calls for radical change.