QUIZ TIME HELP ME PLZ Part A
According to the selection from Life on the Mississippi, how do the people of Hannibal usually respond to the arrival of a packet boat?

A. tired acceptance
B. brief annoyance
C. great excitement
D. shock and anger
Part B
Which of the following quotations from Life on the Mississippi best illustrates the answer to Part A?

A. Before these events, the day was glorious with expectancy; after them, the day was a dead and empty thing.
B. [T]wo or three wood flats at the head of the wharf, but nobody to listen to the peaceful lapping of the wavelets against them; the great Mississippi …
C. She is long and sharp and trim and pretty; she has two tall, fancy-topped chimneys, with a gilded device of some kind swung between them…
D. Then such a scramble as there is to get aboard, and to get ashore … and such a yelling and cursing.…