11. Based on the information from the article, what conclusion could the author of "How to Climb a Mountain" reasonably draw about why Ed
McGee from "The Hike"did not reach the peak before Mr. Arseno?
A. McGee was injured while scaling the mountain.
B. McGee was unhealthy and in relatively poor shape.
C. McGee did not know how to climb a mountain.
D. McGee was carrying too much equipment for the kind of climb that
had been planned.

Read this excerpt from "a visit from the goon squad."that’s when he began singing the songs he’d been writing for years underground, songs no one had ever heard, or anything like them—“eyes in my head,” “x’s and o’s,” “who’s watching hardest”—ballads of paranoia and disconnection ripped from the chest of a man you knew just by looking had never had a page or a profile or a handle or a handset, who was part of no one’s data, a guy who had lived in the cracks all these years, forgotten and full of rage, in a way that now registered as pure. untouched.how does the author use satire in this excerpt? the author is criticizing media censorship.the author is criticizing the idea of isolationism.the author is mocking society’s overuse of technology.the author is mocking man’s inability to freely express himself.