Read the excerpt from “The Monkey's Paw.”But the days passed, and expectation gave place to resignation – the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled, apathy. Sometimes they hardly exchanged a word, for now they had nothing to talk about, and their days were long to weariness.
Answer
A
the hope that Herbert will come home
B
the use of such words as “expectation” and “hardly exchanged”
C
the number of days that pass after Herbert’s death
D
the use of such words as “hopeless resignation” and “weariness”