Read the excerpt from the land. mister ray sutcliffe from alabama did not look . "all right. all right. i'm going to pay you what you asking, this four times a rider's wages—but only if you win, you hear? you lose, boy, and you get nothing." i was taking a big risk with my daddy, to walk away with nothing for it. but i figured i'd struck the best deal i could with ray sutcliffe, and despite the risk, there was something in me that wanted to prove to my daddy not only that i could ride this stranger's horse, but that i was a man now. i nodded. "i understand," i said. "but if he wins, i'll need my money right after the race." what does this dialogue reveal about paul? a: he is naive about business. b: he is confident in his abilities. c: he is afraid of his father. d: he is cautious in his decision-making.

Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.