Which excerpt from flannery o’connor’s “good country people” best identifies the narrative as a piece of southern gothic literature?
a) joy was her daughter, a blonde girl who had an artificial leg.
b) the reason for her keeping them so long was that they were . . good country people.
c) her name was really joy but as soon as she was twenty-one and away from home, she had had it legally changed.
d) one of her major triumphs was that her mother had not been able to turn her dust into joy.

13 points : ) which two aspects of scrooge's character does this excerpt from a christmas carol by charles dickens reveal? "i wish to be left alone," said scrooge. "since you ask me what i wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. i don’t make merry myself at christmas and i can't afford to make idle people merry. i to support the establishments i have mentioned—they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there." "many can’t go there; and many would rather die." "if they would rather die," said scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. besides—excuse me—i don't know that." "but you might know it," observed the gentleman. his stingy attitude and conduct his distrust of government institutions his indifference to others' suffering his support for the community