In the middle of this test respond quick plz and thank you Readthis excerpt from The Call of the Wild, and consider the context clues.
What is the meaning of the underlined word?
His only apparent ambition, like Dave's, was to be left
alone; though, as Buck was afterward to learn, each of
them possessed one other and even more vital ambition.
O objective or goal
O happiness or joy
O weakness or flaw
o possession of belonging

answer; i believe the correct answer is ( indirect characterization);

“yesterday’s the past, tomorrow is the future, and today is a gift, that’s why we call it a ”

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which one is underlined?

awnser:

the thousand and one nights – or, as i prefer to call them in the following forpurely practical reasons: the arabian nights – as we perceive them three hundredyears after antoine galland’s epochal french adaptation bear a distinct arabicimprint. meanwhile, the commonly accepted model for their textual historyacknowledges various stages in the conceptualization and effective formation ofboth the collection’s characteristic frame story and the embedded repertoire. thevast majority of tales in the preserved manuscripts of the nights has beenintegrated into the collection during two periods of arabic influence, the so-calledbaghdad and cairo periods (gerhardt 1963: 115–374). these “arabic” stages arepreceded by an iranian version, probably dating to pre-islamic times, which in itsturn profits from both structural devices and narrative contents originating fromindian tradition. considering the eminent position that iran and iranian culturehold in the early stages of the textual history of the arabian nights, surprisinglyfew details are known concerning the collection’s relation to and its actualposition within the iranian cultural context. in the following, i will discuss linksbetween the arabian nights and iranian culture on several levels. in surveyingthese links, i will treat five major areas: (1) the iranian prototype of the nights; (2) tales of alleged persian origin; (3) persian characters within the tales; (4)persian translations of the arabian nights; and (5) the position of the arabiannights in modern iran