Please help with my homework, thank you! Read this section (paragraphs 13-17) from Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea to determine how ideas, individuals, and events influence one another. Then answer the follow-up questions.

He had one trusted friend from the radio station who shared his increasing disdain for the regime. When the two of them got together, Chang-bo would open a bottle of Mrs. Song’s neungju and, after a few drinks, they would let rip their true feelings.

“What a bunch of liars!” Chang-bo would say in an emphatic tone, taking care just the same not to speak loudly enough for the sound to carry through the thin plaster walls between the apartments.

“Crooks, all of them.”

“The son is even worse than the father.”

Oak-hee eavesdropped on her father and his friend. She nodded quietly in agreement. When her father noticed, he at first tried to shoo her away. Eventually he gave up. Swearing her to secrecy, he took her into his confidence. He told her that Kim Il-sung was not the anti-Japanese resistance fighter he claimed to be so much as a puppet of the Soviet Union. He told her that South Korea was now among the richest countries in Asia; even ordinary working people owned their own cars. Communism, he reported, was proving a failure as an economic system. China and the Soviet Union were now embracing capitalism. Father and daughter would talk for hours, always taking care to keep their voices at a whisper in case a neighbor was snooping around. And, at such times, they always made sure that Mrs. Song, the true believer, was not at home.

Questions:

Part A

Chang-bo offers all of the following examples as evidence for his ideas about North Korea EXCEPT .

A. poor leadership

B. failure of the communist system

C. a flawed voting system

D. lack of wealth

Part B

Which of the following sentences provides evidence that Chang-bo is afraid of being reported to the government for his ideas?

A. “‘What a bunch of liars!’” Chang-bo would say in an emphatic tone, taking care just the same not to speak loudly enough for the sound to carry through the thin plaster walls between the apartments.”

B. “Swearing her to secrecy, he took her into his confidence.”

C. “And, at such times, they always made sure that Mrs. Song, the true believer, was not at home.”

D. all of the above