in the fourth paragraph, shamengwas decision to place his awards on a triangle scrap of his shelf high in one of the corners in his house suggests that he

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In the fourth paragraph, Shamengwa’s decision to place his awards “on a triangular scrap of shelf high inone corner of his house” suggests that he

A.attaches little importance to external recognition

B.wishes to prevent the awards from being damaged

C.wants his neighbors to know of his accomplishments

D.does not want to be reminded about the competitions

E.does not want his grandchild to play with the awards without permission

The correct answer is option A.attaches little importance to external recognition .

Explanation:

Shamengwa did not attach much importance to his awards. Even when his grandchildren asked to see them, he didn't mind giving them to them. That is why the correct answer is option A.

On the other hand, what Shamengwa really cared about was his violin.

since it is asking for her reaction to elnora's trouble at school you can rule out any answers with a positive response (b). then you can rule out (d), this is because it does not show the mother's reaction but the daughter's response. that leaves you with two options (a) and (c), by looking at the options you can rule out (c) because it isn't referring back to elnora's issues at school.

innocence can be defined as the lack of sin, relating it with the lack of guilt, also it can be a synonime of naivety. most people agree that sins are made out of experiences, intentionally or not, as well as you stop being naive once certain things happen to you throughout your life. so, with this explained, the chosen answers are:

when the boy saw the effects of war, he no longer viewed life as innocent.

the loss of innocence is a result of gaining experience and making mistakes.

one way to define innocence is as a lack of worldly experience or sophistication.