2. The snake bragged that he could send people back to earth from, "whence they came." What
did he mean?
(14 Points)
The snake means people will go back to their childhood homes.
The snake means that he can send people back to the past.
The snake means that his poison can kill the body and allow the soul to return to where it came from.

- a.) the man dies after he is unable to keep a fire lit.

c is the answer because first she would blush to make the reader wonder why which they find out in the next line.

answer: the correct answer is that he still ridicules people that look different.

explanation: in "the nose"   by nikolai gogol, the author sets up a satirical view of russian society. the book is divided into three parts and tells the story of collegiate assessor ('major') kovalyov, who gets up one morning without his nose. he later finds out that his nose has developed a life by itself, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of state councillor. the short story showcases the obsession with social rank that plagued russia after peter the great introduced the table of ranks. by allowing commoners to attain hereditary nobility through service to the state, a large population was given the chance to move up in social status. this opportunity, however, also gave way to large bureaucracies, in which many of gogol's characters worked.