1. The author calls scorpions “pleasant, unassuming creatures with, on the whole, the most charming habits.” Do you think he is being serious or joking? What does this
phrase tell you about the author's tone?

Ineed . read the passage, and choose the two (2) inferences that are most firmly based on the given information. up through the 1700s, many europeans believed that a king’s touch could cure diseases. at his coronation in 1775, for example, king louis the sixteenth of france touched 2,400 of his ailing subjects. 1. the touch of a king truly has special healing power others do not have 2. there had been other kings of france named louis. 3. french coronations were public events. 4. the french suffered