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Which of these inferences about Tom is best supported by the entire excerpt?Answer choices for the above questionA. He cares most about making sure the fence job is done well.B. He has a pre-planned strategy to fool the other boys.C. He feels bad about tricking so many of his friends.D. He didnt really have any fun activities planned out for the day.He began to think of the fun he had planned for this day, and his sorrows multiplied. Soon the free boys would come tripping along on all sorts of delicious expeditions, and they would make a world of fun of him for having to workthe very thought of it burnt him like fire. He got out his worldly wealth and examined itbits of toys, marbles, and trash; enough to buy an exchange of WORK, maybe, but not half enough to buy so much as half an hour of pure freedom. So he returned his straitened means to his pocket, and gave up the idea of trying to buy the boys. At this dark and hopeless moment an inspiration burst upon him! Nothing less than a great, magnificent inspiration.He took up his brush and went tranquilly to work. Ben Rogers hove in sight presentlythe very boy, of all boys, whose ridicule he had been dreading. Ben's gait was the hop-skip-and-jumpproof enough that his heart was light and his anticipations high. He was eating an apple, and giving a long, melodious whoop, at intervals, followed by a deep-toned ding-dong-dong, ding-dong-dong, for he was personating a steamboat. As he drew near, he slackened speed, took the middle of the street, leaned far over to starboard and rounded to ponderously and with laborious pomp and circumstancefor he was personating the Big Missouri, and considered himself to be drawing nine feet of water. He was boat and captain and engine-bells combined, so he had to imagine himself standing on his own hurricane-deck giving the orders and executing them:"Stop her, sir! Ting-a-ling-ling!" The headway ran almost out, and he drew up slowly toward the sidewalk."Ship up to back! Ting-a-ling-ling!" His arms straightened and stiffened down his sides."Set her back on the stabboard! Ting-a-ling-ling! Chow! ch-chow-wow! Chow!" His right hand, mean-time, describing stately circlesfor it was representing a forty-foot wheel.Tom went on whitewashingpaid no attention to the steamboat. Ben stared a moment and then said: "Hi-YI! YOU'RE up a stump, ain't you!"No answer. Tom surveyed his last touch with the eye of an artist, then he gave his brush another gentle sweep and surveyed the result, as before. Ben ranged up alongside of him. Tom's mouth watered for the apple, but he stuck to his work. Ben said:"Hello, old chap, you got to work, hey?"Tom wheeled suddenly and said:"Why, it's you, Ben! I warn't noticing.""SayI'm going in a-swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of course you'd druther WORKwouldn't you? Course you would!"Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said:"What do you call work?""Why, ain't THAT work?"Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly:"Well, maybe it is, and maybe it ain't. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer.""Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you LIKE it?"The brush continued to move."Like it? Well, I don't see why I oughtn't to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom swept his brush daintily back and forthstepped back to note the effectadded a touch here and therecriticised the effect againBen watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more absorbed. Presently he said:"Say, Tom, let ME whitewash a little."Tom considered, was about to consent; but he altered his mind:"NonoI reckon it wouldn't hardly do, Ben. You see, Aunt Polly's awful particular about this fenceright here on the street, you knowbut if it was the back fence I wouldn't mind and SHE wouldn't. Yes, she's awful particular about this fence; it's got to be done very careful; I reckon there ain't one boy in a thousand, maybe two thousand, that can do it the way it's got to be done."
This is an excerpt from a radio address given by Senator Huey Long on February 10, 1935.Mr. Roosevelt rode in on a program that he was going to bring poverty to an absolute end. He promised to bring down these fortunes. He promised to see there was no such thing as a man without a home and the comforts of a home. He promised there would be no such thing as an unemployed man, and if you consider the fact that 54% of the farm labor is unemployed today, and if you will add these to the industrial statistics, you have got 21,000,000 unemployed. Count 2 to 3 people to every unemployed person, since one man usually earns the bread for three, and you have half of the American people today unemployed. If Mr. Roosevelt [had kept] his promises to the American people, we wont have all of this trouble.What criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt is evident in this excerpt?ResponsesA) President Roosevelt proposed using the resources of the federal government but did not have the power to mobilize those resources.B)President Roosevelt focused on helping unemployed agricultural workers but did nothing to help unemployed industrial workers.C)President Roosevelt did not do enough to address the issues of unemployment, poverty, and inequality.D)President Roosevelt put too much emphasis on the redistribution of wealth and not enough on ending homelessness.