The storm howled, and nicki could barely hear the captain's voice as she stood out on the bow of the ship. she remembered a time when standing here would have terrified her. "boats are no place for children," her father had said. but now she was not a child. her father, on the other hand, never seemed to change. he slept below the deck, steady and stubborn as always. nicki looked out at the vast expanse of sea, dreaming of the places she was going to go, unaware of the man in the top hat, who continued to stalk her. which statement best identifies the characters in the passage? a. nicki is a round character; nicki's father is a flat character. b. nicki is a flat character; nicki's father is the protagonist. c. the man in the top hat is a flat character; the captain is a round character. d. the captain is a flat character; nicki's father is a round character.

Read the excerpt from loom and spindle. but in a short time the prejudice against factory labor wore away, and the lowell mills became filled with blooming and energetic new england women. . they soon began to associate with those who formed the community in which they had come to live, and were invited to their houses. they went to the same church, and sometimes married into some of the best families. or if they returned to their secluded homes again, instead of being looked down upon as "factory girls" by the squire's or the lawyer's family, they were more often welcomed as coming from the metropolis, bringing new fashions, new books, and new ideas with them. what inference can be drawn about the time period of the excerpt? a. the changing workforce transformed society’s rules. b. factories improved local economies with new products. c. women with factory experience found other jobs easily. d. married women preferred factory work to homemaking.