Reread these sentences from “The Silent Songbird”. “Sometimes Madison rehearsed with Abigail, which sad the most difficult task of all. Abigail acted like a spoiled Hollywood star and was about as pleasant as a rattlesnake to Madison.”

The reference to a rattlesnake refers to what character trait from “The Rainbow Crow”?
a. boastfulness
b. selfishness
c. sneakiness
d. doubtfulness

i’ve seen people say that it is a, yet in the passage of “The Rainbow Crow” it states: “His sweet songs charmed the hearts of the other animals, even mean, selfish Rattlesnake and lonesome Wolf.” so i was just curious

The courage that my mother had went with her, and is with her still: rock from new england quarried; now granite in a granite hill. the golden brooch my mother wore she left behind for me to wear; i have no thing i treasure more: yet, it is something i could spare. oh, if instead she'd left to me the thing she took into the grave! - that courage like a rock, which she has no more need of, and i have. based on the 2nd stanza, how does the speaker feel about the golden brooch that was passed down from the mother to child? question 2 options: a: the speaker thinks it was a waste of money b: the speaker places a high value on the item c: the speaker never wears the brooch d: the speaker feels it could be easily replaced