Which is true when a country is experiencing a golden age? a. great wealth is evenly distributed among every citizen b. its citizens enjoy widespread economic prosperity and signifigant achievements in art, music and/or litterature are attained. c. a beauitiful, kind, and wealthy queen is respected by her subjects. d. people will attend well written plays and become more educated and enlightend as a result.

Read the excerpt from "a pair of silk stockings." but she went on feeling the soft, sheeny luxurious things—with both hands now, holding them up to see them glisten, and to feel them glide serpent-like through her fingers. which best describes the underlying tone of the excerpt created by the connotations of the words “soft,” ”luxurious,” “glisten,” and “serpent-like”? 1. gloom 2. temptation 3. forgiveness 4. suspicion