Which answer best summarizes the events from the poem contained in the following lines?

"then came to the building the warrior marching,
bereft of his joyance. the door quickly opened
on fire–hinges fastened, when his fingers had touched it;
the fell one had flung then—his fury so bitter—
open the entrance."

a. beowulf opens the door of the mead–hall and finds grendel waiting.
b. grendel arrives and rips open the door of the mead–hall.
c. beowulf keeps the door of the mead–hall closed as grendel tries to enter.
d. grendel tries to break down the door of the mead–hall but fails.

How does loma cervantes celebrate her culture in “freeway 280”? ?

Why does the author of exploring the titanic give background information about his youth and education? to show his lifelong love for the ocean

Asap plz which sentence from this excerpt of jefferson davis’s inaugural address indicates that secession was the confederacy’s way of reclaiming its legal powers? an agricultural people, whose chief interest is the export of a commodity required in every manufacturing country, our true policy is peace, and the freest trade which our necessities will permit . . there can be but little rivalry between ours and any manufacturing or navigating community, such as the northeastern states of the american union. it must follow, therefore, that a mutual interest would invite good will and kind offices. if, however, passion or the lust of dominion should cloud the judgment or inflame the ambition of those states, we must prepare to meet the emergency and to maintain, by the final arbitrament of the sword, the position which we have assumed among the nations of the earth. we have entered upon the career of independence, and it must be inflexibly pursued. through many years of controversy with our late associates, the northern states, we have vainly endeavored to secure tranquillity, and to obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. as a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to the remedy of separation; and henceforth our energies must be directed to the conduct of our own affairs, and the perpetuity of the confederacy which we have formed. if a just perception of mutual interest shall permit us peaceably to pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desire will have been fulfilled. but, if this be denied to us, and the integrity of our territory and jurisdiction be assailed, it will but remain for us, with firm resolve, to appeal to arms and invoke the blessings of providence on a just cause . .