30 points the night of the little boats (you'll have to find this passage and read it to answer the questions) (paragraphs 1-18) 8. which statement below best summarizes the central idea of this excerpt? question 8 options: a. military boats and civilian ships struggled to navigate during a nighttime rescue mission. b. civilian sacrifice and good fortune played important roles in a daring rescue of british troops. c. the sailors of the little boats were part of the largest rescue operation during world war ii. d. each group of rescuers had different motivations for saving the british troops. 9. which excerpt provides the best support for the correct answer in question 8? question 9 options: a. “there were bankers and dentists, taxi drivers and yachtsmen, old longshoremen and very young boys, engineers, fishermen, and civil servants. there were fresh- faced young sea scouts and old men with white hair blowing in the wind.” b. “behind them, invisible in the blackness, was england. ahead, glowing faintly from burning oil tanks and flaming artillery, lay the coast of france.” c. “suddenly out of the night came dozens of aircraft flares dropped by the german bombers, looking like orange blossoms overhead.” d. “those who were there will never forget the long lines of men wearily staggering across the beach from the dunes to the shallows, falling into the little boats, while others, caught where they stood, died among the bombs and bullets.

“every man a king” which of the following best describes a central idea of the text?

Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. read the following excerpt from the novel "oliver twist" by charles dickens. although oliver had been brought up by philosophers, he was not theoretically acquainted with the beautiful axiom that self-preservation is the first law of nature. if he had been, perhaps he would have been prepared for this. not being prepared, however, it alarmed him the more; so away he went

Read the passage from animal farm. "that was part of the arrangement! " cried squealer. "jones's shot only grazed him. i could show you this in his own writing, if you were able to read it. the plot was for snowball, at the critical moment, to give the signal for flight and leave the field to the enemy. and he very nearly succeeded—i will even say, comrades, he would have succeeded if it had not been for our heroic leader, comrade napoleon. do you not remember how, just at the moment when jones and his men had got inside the yard, snowball suddenly turned and fled, and many animals followed him? and do you not remember, too, that it was just at that moment, when panic was spreading and all seemed lost, that comrade napoleon sprang forward with a cry of 'death to humanity! ' and sank his teeth in jones's leg? surely you remember that, comrades? " exclaimed squealer, frisking from side to side. now when squealer described the scene so graphically, it seemed to the animals that they did remember it. at any rate, they remembered that at the critical moment of the battle snowball had turned to flee. but boxer was still a little uneasy. how does the characterization of squealer support the author’s purpose? squealer's dramatic accusations draw parallels between him and stalin’s propagandists. squealer's uncertainty shows that he is not a reliable ally of napoleon and is ineffective with messaging. squealer's ability to get the animals to listen to him shows that any animal can rise to be a leader in time. squealer's humble interactions with the animals reflect the importance of equality and cooperation.