All applicants who are selected for hiring must successfully complete a recruit training program at the fire department training academy. the training academy lasts 15 weeks. those who successfully complete the training program are placed at stations as probationary firefighters for the remainder of the one year probationary period. during the probationary period, additional training will be provided. latin probare = to prove or test given the latin root, what is the best definition of probationary as used in the passage? a) a period in which a person's fitness for work is tested b) a trial period in which a student can bring up his grades c) a suspension of the sentence orginally given to a criminal d) a trial for membership in a social group or religious order

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