Read these quotations from paragraph three of the sermon "sinners in the hands of an angry god" and answer the question. … the earth don't willingly yield her increase to satisfy your lusts; … the air don't willingly serve you for breath to maintain the flame of life in your vitals … angelica is writing a summary of paragraph 3 of edwards' sermon. which sentence best restates the meaning of the quotations in modern language? a the earth knows what you desire; the air knows what you need to sustain your life. b the earth does not exist simply to provide you with the things you want; the air was not simply created to keep you alive. c the more you expect from the earth, the less the earth will provide; i. e., the older you get, the less air you will receive. d the earth will produce more as you want more; the more air you need, the more you shall have.

In chapter 5, ekwefi is called "a woman who had suffered a great deal and in chapter 6, when discussing ezinma with chielo, she states, '"i pray she stays." speculate what may have been an event that caused suffering in ekwefi's past.

Why does pumblechook choke on the brandy at christmas dinner? a. he has had too much to drink. b. mrs. joe had only spoiled brandy to serve him. c. pip replaced it with tar water. d. he becomes overexcited telling his story.

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant