I was left alone in the room for M-E-N. I examined it with great care—the smooth enamel bowl with water in the bottom, the wooden lid with a large hole that looked like a horse collar, the small brown box up near the ceiling, the chain hanging from it. Pressed for time, I finally decided it was safe enough to try. How does Ernesto feel?

Ernesto most likely felt scared, questioning, and curious.

Scared: He wouldn't have examined it at first if he knew what it was, and most people are scared of new things

Questioning: As seen, he "examines it", which means he first questions it's usage

Curious: Ernesto wouldn't have experimented what it was, if he wasn't curious at first.

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in   ¨and yet the books¨   by czelaw miloz the tone is positive since it tells us that when we touch a book, it starts to live and the perspective is in the third person and turns once into the first person. in "the rhinoceros" by eugene ionesco the tone is illogical and absurd   and the perspective is in the third person since it is a play.

to and without are prepositions, so a, b, and d are prepositional phrases. the adverb phrase is c, about the surprise.

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