What caused the fire engines to head toward the wrong location in the great chicago fire

Which three sentences in this excerpt from arthur conan doyle's "the contest" suggest that the author's tone is mocking?

In julius caesar did portia use effective strategies when she tried to persuade brutus to tell her the truth?

The ancient greek poet. homer, is credited with writing the odyssey. however, scholars still debate whether homer wrote the entire epic. what is the main reason for this uncertainty? o some sections of the epic are written in different poetic styles and forms. most ancient greeks could not read or write, so the epic was first written in latin ob och storytellers repeated the epic aloud for centuries before it was ever written down. od the epic was a fictional account, so the identity of its author may have been fictionalized as well.