Asap!

1. in the story little women, one family brings breakfast to another on christmas morning. read this passage and then answer the question that follows:

a poor, bare, miserable room it was, with broken windows, no fire, ragged bedclothes, a sick mother, wailing baby, and a group of pale, hungry children cuddled under one old quilt, trying to keep warm.

how the big eyes stared and the blue lips smiled as the girls went in.

"ach, mein gott! it is good angels come to us! " said the poor woman, crying for joy.

what explicit meaning can you find about the sick woman and her children from this text?

the father of the children left the family.
the children were cold and had not eaten.
the family bringing gifts pitied the children.
the woman would soon die from her illness.

2. what does it mean to make an inference?

to converse directly with the reader through text
to write with many explicit messages throughout
to a person read a difficult piece of writing
to figure out the hidden meaning of a text

3. what is explicit meaning?

the hidden meaning
the obvious meaning
the popular meaning
the unpopular meaning

4. what is implicit meaning?

the hidden meaning
the obvious meaning
the popular meaning
the unpopular meaning