Read the excerpt from Act I of The Importance of Being Earnest.

Lady Bracknell. Pardon me, you are not engaged to any
one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or
your father, should his health permit him, will inform you
of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl
as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may
be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to
arrange for herself...

Wilde uses Lady Bracknell's words to poke fun at marriage by having her

O speak unhappily of her own marriage.
O speak lovingly of her own husband.
imply that young women do not have a choice in their
own marriages.
O imply that marriages are happiest when based on
romantic love.

It’s C

What word or words suggest they have a monotonous marriage? in the lamb to the slaughter

Which word best describes the author's tone in this excerpt from "that spot" by jack london? i don’t think much of stephen mackaye any more, though i used to swear by him. i know that in those days i loved him more than my own brother. if ever i meet stephen mackaye again, i shall not be responsible for my actions. it passes beyond me that a man with whom i shared food and blanket, and with whom i mushed over the chilcoot trail, should turn out the way he did. i always sized steve up as a square man, a kindly comrade, without an iota of anything vindictive or malicious in his nature. i shall never trust my judgment in men again. why, i nursed that man through typhoid fever; we starved together on the headwaters of the stewart; and he saved my life on the little salmon. and now, after the years we were together, all i can say of stephen mackaye is that he is the meanest man i ever knew. a. excited b. ironic c. indignant d. playful

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