Select the correct answer from the drop-down menu. Read the excerpt. Then choose the correct way to complete the paragraph.

Not only had Lillian not known about her friend's talent, but she had not known about her friend's modesty that bordered on diffidence, and this deplorable lack of self-confidence had caused Skye to become a hermit in her house trying to avoid the publicity.

The words modesty and diffidence both imply "bashfulness." However, in this sentence, diffidence is used to mean "lack of self-confidence," while modesty is used to mean “
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1. Not to proud
2.Moderation
3. Extreme shyness
4. Being proper

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

Then, from heaven, the voice of the god called to gilgamesh: "hurry, attack, attack humbaba while the time is right, before he enters the depths of the forest, before he can hide there and wrap himself in his seven auras with their paralyzing glare. he is wearing just one now. attack him! now! " –gilgamesh: a new english translation, stephen mitchell identify a feature of epic poetry in the passage. in three to four sentences, explain its impact on the epic's plot.

Read the excerpt from "thoughts on the works of providence" by phillis wheatley and complete the sentence that follows.