Huckleberry finn question
why does the new judge decline judge thatcher’s and the widow’s request to adopt huck?
a. he said the court shouldn’t break up families
b. he didn’t think they could afford to raise huck.
c he wanted huck to go and live with huck’s mother
d. he thought huck’s pap was a better parent

a. He said the court shouldn’t break up families, the whole reason he declined it was because he didn't want to separate any families because he didn't believe that was right.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.