Read the excerpt from a short story. They had laughed at the shabbiness of the hotel. "Oh well," they'd said, "we aren't going to spend any time inside." And
they had not. They'd spent the day and evening sightseeing and had not retreated to their rooms until they were spent.
Now Ana appraised her modest accommodations, remembering how the window in her room had amused her friends,
as it offered a view of a brick wall not six inches away. "You get what you pay for!" they'd exclaimed, closing the heavy
curtains.
The window captured Ana's attention again. As she readied for bed, she heard a persistent tapping coming from outside.
Ana reasoned with herself, reminded herself that only small bird or bug in distress could fit in such a space. The tapping
suggested otherwise, and she turned to investigate.
How does the excerpt exemplify the ideas King describes in "Danse Macabre"?
It allows readers to approach a "forbidden door."
It provides a "single powerful spectacle" for the imagination's eye.
It forces readers to "grapple" with their own mortality.
It excites readers with the concept of "magic."

Asap plz which sentence from this excerpt of jefferson davis’s inaugural address indicates that secession was the confederacy’s way of reclaiming its legal powers? an agricultural people, whose chief interest is the export of a commodity required in every manufacturing country, our true policy is peace, and the freest trade which our necessities will permit . . there can be but little rivalry between ours and any manufacturing or navigating community, such as the northeastern states of the american union. it must follow, therefore, that a mutual interest would invite good will and kind offices. if, however, passion or the lust of dominion should cloud the judgment or inflame the ambition of those states, we must prepare to meet the emergency and to maintain, by the final arbitrament of the sword, the position which we have assumed among the nations of the earth. we have entered upon the career of independence, and it must be inflexibly pursued. through many years of controversy with our late associates, the northern states, we have vainly endeavored to secure tranquillity, and to obtain respect for the rights to which we were entitled. as a necessity, not a choice, we have resorted to the remedy of separation; and henceforth our energies must be directed to the conduct of our own affairs, and the perpetuity of the confederacy which we have formed. if a just perception of mutual interest shall permit us peaceably to pursue our separate political career, my most earnest desire will have been fulfilled. but, if this be denied to us, and the integrity of our territory and jurisdiction be assailed, it will but remain for us, with firm resolve, to appeal to arms and invoke the blessings of providence on a just cause . .