These answer choices are greek to ?

the founders of a new colony, whatever utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

what part of the plot does this excerpt reveal?

a. it is part of the exposition that describes the importance of the puritan prison.
b. it is part of the exposition that describes the happiness of the puritan settlers.
c. it is part of the rising action that reveals criminal activity.
d. it is part of the rising action that reveals the puritan work ethic. < -wrong

It is part of the exposition that describes the importance of the Puritan prison.

Explanation:

irving effectively uses emotional responses to create suspense in the story.irving’s tone creates expectations for the reader, which in turn create suspense.irving’s suspense would have been more effective with more vivid details.irving’s story is not suspenseful

the answer:

in the first part of the story running is all that matters to squeaky. running gives her confidence and defines who she is. at the beginning of the story she says that other kids call her mercury because she runs very fast. in the text she refers to herself as "miss quicksilver".

the line that provides the best evidence that squeaky has self-confidence is

" and i continue with my breathing exercise, strolling down broadway toward the ice cream man on 145th with not a care in the world cause i am miss quicksilver herself".