Read this excerpt from "Look Homeward, Angel." Like all the older children of Major Pentland she had, since her twentieth year, begun the slow accretion of land: from the savings of her small wage as teacher and book-agent, she had already purchased one or two pieces of earth.

From this excerpt, Eliza can best be described as a:

A) dutiful daughter.

B) humble teacher.

C) shrewd investor.

D) rich heiress.

C) shrewd investor.

Explanation:

The novel "Look Homeward, Angel" is a coming of age novel which is more like an autobiographical story of the author Thomas Wolfe's life. The book revolves around the character of Eugene Gant and how he grew up and away from his father's drunken ways.

In the given excerpt from the text, the character described is that of Eliza Pentland, the daughter of Major Pentland, wife of William Oliver Gant, and the mother of Eugene. The narrator here states that through the small savings she had kept from "her wage as a teacher and book-agent", Eliza was able to buy land. This shows that she is a shrewd investor and knows a thing or two about land acquisition.

Thus, the correct answer is option C.

C

Explanation:

the sentence that avoid faulty coordination is:

culture, which is well represented in philadelphia, plays a major role including theatre, music, and the visual arts.  

faulty coordination occurs when the writer gives equal importance two different ideas (clauses) which in fact are not equivalent. in order to correct a misplaced clause or idea, the writer can place less important or emphatic ideas in a relative clause as in the previous sentence.