Silas's hand satisfied itself with throwing the shuttle, and his eye with seeing the little squares in the cloth complete themselves under his effort.  Then there were the calls of hunger; and Silas, in his solitude, had to provide his own breakfast, dinner, and supper, to fetch his own water from the well, and put his own kettle on the fire; and all these immediate promptings helped, along with the weaving, to reduce his life to the unquestioning activity of a spinning insect.  He hated the thought of the past; there was nothing that called out his love and fellowship toward the strangers he had come amongst; and the future was all dark, for there was no Unseen Love that cared for him.

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.

Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas.10Select the correct answer.How does the author develop the character in this excerpt? A. through the use of descriptive detail B. through the character’s actions C. through the use of dialogue D. through the character’s thoughts

Select the correct answer.Which line from the text best represents Della's perspective of her situation at the beginning of the passage? A. There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. B. In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring. C. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad. D. Grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked at it on the sly on account of the old leather strap that he used in place of a chain.

In painting the Last Supper, Leonardo’s intention was to narrate the _______.*0/1a. event as found in the Four Gospelsb. Renaissance table mannersc. kinds of foods during his timed. greed of the apostles of Jesus

Felix cut the venison half-heartedly. "Excuse me," he said, putting down his knife and fork. Thinking of how his father will probably blame him for the stalker, saying he kept on bothering him and getting in trouble, he feels ill. He runs to the bathroom to vomit up what little food he ate. you notice this.