Read the following sentences from "day of the butterfly" in which myra, who is hospitalized, is unwrapping gifts brought to her by her classmates. she began to unwrap the presents, with an air that not even gladys could have bettered, folding the tissue paper and the ribbons, and drawing out books and puzzles and cutouts as if they were all prizes she had won. miss darling said that maybe she should say you, and the person's name with every gifts she opened, to make sure she knew whom it was from, and so myra said, " you, mary louise, you, carol," and when she came to mine she said, " you, helen." which of the following best describes the relationship between myra and her classmates? a. admiring b. cordial c. formal d. warm

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive