PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?
A "No one else is around. / Where have they gone to, brother and sister
/ mother and father?" ( Lines 6-8)
B "The day is bright and songless,/ the lake is blue, the forest watchful./
In the east a bank of cloud /rises up silently like dark bread
Lines 15-18)
C "if this is a trap or blessing. /finding myself back here, where
everything / in this house has long been over kettle and mirror, spoon
and bowl. /including my own body including the body I had then./
including the body I have now" Lines 23-29)
Din my burning clothes, the thin green shorts and grubby yellow T-
shirt/holding my cindery, non-existent. / radiant flesh. Incandescenti
(Lines 33-36)

its confident and professional

21 balloons is the story of professor william sherman's travels.

in 1883, he set off from san francisco for a balloon ride over the pacific and was found a month later floating with 21 balloons in the atlantic ocean. this seemed an astounding feat and everyone wanted to know what had happened.    

professor sherman was loyal, however, and said he would tell his tale first to the western american explorers club in san francisco, of which he was a member. this built up suspense for several chapters before he began to tell of the wonders of his adventures and the amazing island of krakatoa, an island which had just been blown up by a volcano.  

the residents of krakatoa are all millionaires who live under a "gourmet government" of their own devising. we get to see all the incredible adventures that creative people with unlimited resources would create according to the author.