Select the correct text in the passage. Which four phrases best describe the setting in this excerpt from James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?
When the 1. short days of winter. came dusk fell 2.before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre.
3.The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. 4.The cold air
stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent streets. The career of our play brought us through 5.the dark
muddy lanes behind the houses where 6.we ran the gauntlet. of the rough tribes from the cottages, to the back doors of the dark dripping
gardens where odours arose from the ashplts, 7.to the dark odorous stables 8.where a coachman smoothed and combed the horse or shook music
from the buckled harness.

Theme is question 26 options: the way the story is presented. overarching ideas that are presented in the story. the author�s message that he or she is communicating to readers. the way the story makes the reader feel.

He leaned his head against the wall; his eyes were shut, his hands clasped in each other, and his body seemed to be sustained in an upright position merely by the cellar-door against which he rested his left shoulder. the lethargy into which he was sunk seemed scarcely interrupted by my feeling his hand and his forehead. his throbbing temples and burning skin indicated a fever . . there was only one circumstance that hindered me from forming an immediate determination in what manner this person should be treated. my family consisted of my wife and a young child. our servant-maid had been seized, three days before, by the reigning malady, and, at her own request, had been conveyed to the hospital. we ourselves enjoyed good health, and were hopeful of escaping with our lives. our measures for this end had been cautiously taken and carefully adhered to. they did not consist in avoiding the receptacles of infection, for my office required me to go daily into the midst of them; nor in filling the house with the exhalations of gunpowder, vinegar, or tar. they consisted in cleanliness, reasonable exercise, and wholesome diet. who is the story’s first-person narrator

How does dr. king defend the claim he makes in paragraph 9