PLZ HELP ASAP Read the excerpt below from the blog post “Could Future Homes on the Moon and Mars Be Made of Fungi?” As you read, imagine how you would summarize the information.

Just like the astronauts, fungal mycelia is a lifeform that has to eat and breathe. That's where something called cyanobacteria comes in – a kind of bacterium that can use energy from the Sun to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and fungus food.

What is the BEST summary of this excerpt?

a. To grow habitats in space, fungal mycelia have to eat cyanobacteria for energy.
b. Cyanobacteria use energy from the sun to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and fungus food.
c. Just like astronauts, fungal mycelia rely on bacteria for food and oxygen.
d. In space, habitats grown from fungal mycelia will rely on bacteria to feed the fungi.

Which best explains this excerpt’s purpose in the novel’s plot structure? the excerpt creates conflict between characters as part of the rising action. the excerpt provides background information on a character as part of the exposition. the excerpt returns a character to equilibrium as part of the falling action. the excerpt is the point of greatest tension and acts as the climax.

The empire state building was a. constructed by one hundred workers. b. was first lit up by president roosevelt. c. has more than one hundred stories. d took several years to complete.

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ”go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. what is one way that douglass achieves his purpose of persuading the reader to see his point of view? by relating as many facts and statistics to the reader as possibleby using familiar and casual language to make the reader feel comfortableby using gentle language to evoke a sense of calm and tranquilityby repeating the word “you” to directly relate to the reader