Read the following excerpt from the great gatsby: suddenly, with a strained sound, daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily. "they're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. "it makes me sad because i've never seen such—such beautiful shirts before."based on this excerpt, which statement best explains daisy's reaction to gatsby's shirts? a. she is reminded of the beauty of the unattainable american dream. b. she is being ironic and really thinks the shirts are rather ugly. c. she regrets that she was never able to make such beautiful shirts for her husband. d. she is a woman who appreciates beauty, no matter what form it takes.

To meet the needs of commuters in the industrial age, city planners implemented the use of phonographs. provided more horses and carriages. borrowed technology from railroads. constructed new telephone lines.

Returning from vietnam, we were given a parade. crowds of screaming people waving signs — not just on one road, one day. no, they were everywhere. every day. on the streets, on the television, on the radio. a hot, angry tangle of shaking fists and ugly words that threatened us like a monster with a hundred heads. our country had chewed us up and spit us out, and now we were being treated as if it were our fault. which sentence best uses figurative language to match the paragraph's tone? a. our feet were frozen in place as the street itself strained to hold us back. b. i felt unappreciated and condemned for actions i had thought were heroic. c. i hadn't expected to find myself in a rags-to-riches situation such as this. d. we had come home to a feeding frenzy and were being treated as bait.

Which two pieces of evidence support the idea that coal is underutilized? this was on study island about coal