What does this excerpt demonstrate about the town in which the lottery is held? A. The town is economically dominated by a coal business that backs the lottery
B. The town is hostile, full of people who refuse to help each other in dire times.
C. The town is hopelessly backwards, cut off from other American traditions,
D. The town is a small community where the people know each other well.

C. The town is hopelessly backwards, cut off from other American traditions,

Explanation:

Although you have not shown the excerpt to which the question refers, we can say, based on the short story "the Lottery", that the city where the story takes place is lagging behind American traditions. That's because history shows how other cities have already abandoned the lottery tradition and adopted more modern and less disadvantageous traditions, but the city where the story takes place insists on maintaining the lottery, making it a more shadowy and isolated city from the others .

faulty parallelism is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are equivalent in meaning but not grammatically similar in form.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

the problem is the last sentence, the first two have a basic subject+verb+object structure.

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in all three sentences:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

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