Which word could best replace the underlined word as it is used in the paragraph?
when we were experimenting with magnets, it was fun to make them repel each other. my friend and i could feel their power as we got them close. when we tried to make them touch, one or the other would move up, down, or off to one side.
a.
catch
b.
pull
c.
attract
d.
resist

American history (is, are) studying the american colonies.

“what i heard was abominable,” said utterson. “it can make no change. you do not understand my position,” returned the doctor, with a certain incoherency of manner. “i am painfully situated, utterson; my position is a very strange—a very strange one. it is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.” –the strange case of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde, robert louis stevenson write two to three sentences explaining how this passage creates suspense.

What is the tone of the underlined sentence,"george was in no rush apparently