Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. Choose the word that correctly completes each sentence.
1. Despite Abby’s (blank) request, her friends refused to go to the concert with her.

2. Matt laughed (blank)
after scaring his roommate in the middle of the night.

1.a) celestial
B.) fervent
C.) demoniacal

2.) a,)inexorably
B.) wretchedly
C.) demoniacally

Read the passage. when mother’s fever persisted for a week, father summoned our family doctor. dr. blakemore applied leeches to mother’s skin in hopes of reducing the amount of blood in her body. despite the doctor’s efforts, she languished in bed for three more days before her appetite returned and she requested a thin broth. our dear cook, mrs. davis, prepared the broth and delivered it to my mother directly, eager to ease her discomfort. what can readers infer about the time period of the passage?