Read the excerpt from Eighty Years and More:
Reminiscences, 1815-1897
Which question would best help the reader understand
Stanton's viewpoint in the excerpt?
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Why does Stanton's father ask her questions?
Why does Stanton receive a new Greek Testament?
Why is Stanton so excited about winning a prize?
What kind of work does Stanton's father do?
So, as soon as we were dismissed, I ran down the hill,
rushed breathless into (my father's office, laid the new
Greek Testament, which was my prize, on his table and
exclaimed: "There, I got it!" He took up the book, asked
me some questions about the class, the teachers, the
spectators, and evidently pleased, handed it back to me.
Then, while I stood looking and waiting for him to say
something which would show that he recognized the
equality of the daughter with the son, he kissed me on the
forehead and exclaimed, with a sigh, 'Ah, you should
have been a boy

it is the background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story. the exposition will often have information about events that happened before the story began. the exposition is often the very first part of the plot.

again the answer is c

give correct answers

1) if the central idea of "nameless, tn" is "even the tiniest of towns, and the people living there, have value and meaning in this world," which of the following pieces of evidence from the story does not support this central idea?  

a. miss ginny keeps a deathbook of all those in nameless who have passed.

b. there was a doctor who cared about the people and the old way of doing things.

c. miss ginny doesn't like the look of the narrator's van.

d. the general store provided a variety of goods for all the people in nameless.

2)authors rarely state the central idea in narrative nonfiction. how can a reader find the central idea when the author doesn’t state it explicitly?

a. to find the central idea, you look for outside resources about the text and try to determine it through their analysis.

b. to find the central idea, you look at the details in the text: what characters say and do, the events that occur, important challenges or conflicts represented, and the setting. then you think about how these details work together to build and convey a big idea or message

c. to find the central idea, you look at the first paragraph of the story and make a guess.

d. none of these.