Which best summarizes the events from the poem contained in these lines? "to all the earlmen after evenlight's glimmer 'neath heaven's bright hues hath hidden its glory. this my earls then urged me, the most excellent of them, carles very clever, to come and assist thee, folk-leader hrothgar; fully they knew of the strength of my body."
a. the king asked beowulf to travel to his kingdom to slay grendel.
b. beowulf's countrymen encouraged him to defeat grendel.
c. stories of grendel's strength were told throughout hrothgar's lands.
d. the most clever men in the kingdom set out to kill grendel.

13 points : ) which two aspects of scrooge's character does this excerpt from a christmas carol by charles dickens reveal? "i wish to be left alone," said scrooge. "since you ask me what i wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. i don’t make merry myself at christmas and i can't afford to make idle people merry. i to support the establishments i have mentioned—they cost enough; and those who are badly off must go there." "many can’t go there; and many would rather die." "if they would rather die," said scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. besides—excuse me—i don't know that." "but you might know it," observed the gentleman. his stingy attitude and conduct his distrust of government institutions his indifference to others' suffering his support for the community