HELP ASAPPP Read the passage from The Phantom Tollbooth.
"Oh no," said Milo seriously. "In my family we all start on the
ground and grow up, and we never know how far until we
actually get there."
"What a silly system." The boy laughed. "Then your head
keeps changing its height and you always see things in a
different way? Why, when you're fifteen things won't look at
all the way they did when you were ten, and at twenty
everything will change again."
How does Alec believe that "growing down" instead of
"growing up" affects a person's perspective?
It helps a person to choose his or her perspective.
It helps a person keep his or her perspective the same.
It makes a person keep changing his or her perspective.
It makes a person confused about his or her perspective.

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.