Hanes passed the pepper shaker to his sister by sliding it across the wooden table. The pepper shaker gradually slowed down and stopped after moving ten centimeters. a. The table absorbs the force from the pepper shaker
b. the pepper shaker ran out of force
c. The table exerts a force that is opposite to the pepper shaker's motion.
d. All objects stop moving because their natural state is to be still.

Iread this book last year so take this with a grain of salt.gene jumps from the tree to compete with finny due to the fact that gene is always trying to do better than finny. he is put under the grasp of peer pressure due to finny almost forcing him to do this. ever since he first jumped finny kept pressuring him to jump since he thought gene enjoyed jumping.rather than uses this answer you should probably just reread chapters 3-4