Read the excerpt below from a long way gone by ishmael beah and answer the question that follows.

just three days earlier, i had seen my father walking slowly from work. his hard hat was under his arm and his long face was sweating from the hot afternoon sun. i was sitting on the verandah. i had not seen him for a while, as another stepmother had destroyed our relationship again. but that morning my father smiled at me as he came up the steps. he examined my face, and his lips were about to utter something, when my stepmother came out. he looked away, then at my stepmother, who pretended not to see me. they quietly went into the parlor. i held back my tears and left the verandah to meet with junior at the junction where we waited for the lorry. we were on our way to see our mother in the next town about three miles away. when our father had paid for our school, we had seen her on weekends over the holidays when we were back home. now that he refused to pay, we visited her every two or three days. that afternoon we met mother at the market and walked with her as she purchased ingredients to cook for us. her face was dull at first, but as soon as she hugged us, she brightened up. she told us that our little brother, ibrahim, was at school and that we would go get him on our way from the market. she held our hands as we walked, and every so often she would turn around as if to see whether we were still with her.

how does the setting in the excerpt support beah’s characterization?

Fill in the blanks : -1)she " you are a murderer! ".2)" come back, simon", he and in tears.

Me 31) what is the best definition of the word ventured as it is used in the final sentence of paragraph 1? with high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. a) desired b) c) justified d) risked 32) with malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as god gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations. lincoln uses the last paragraph of his speech a) to emphasize the atrocities of war. b) to show his concern for all nations. c) to ask for more support for the war. d) to describe his visions for the nation's rebirth. 33) now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. which is the best definition for expiration as it is used in the selected sentence? a) emission of breath b) ceasing to be in effect c) the act of breathing out d) the emission of volatile matter from the earth's atmosphere 34) the almighty has his own purposes. ‘woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.’ what is the meaning of the word offenses as used in the first line of the fifth paragraph? a) breaking the law b) attack or assault c) causing injury, causing harm or hurt d) sin; wrongdoing against someone else

“dènouement” is another word for the of a plot.