Your answers:
"Nor did it matter that by his yielding he subjected himself to a deeper agony in the end and gave serious hurt to Irene Scheerer and to Irene's parents, who had befriended him."
and
"There was nothing sufficiently pictorial about Irene's grief to stamp itself on his mind."
Answer:
1. nor did it matter...
2. there was nothing...
Explanation:
need-reduction.
motivation.
Odysseus glares at the suitors and mutters under his breath.
Penelope dreams of the suitors' deaths before they happen.
Thunder booms upon after a prayer is offered.
Someone else repeats a prayer Odysseus just finished without knowing Odysseus had just prayed.
Penelope dreams she is crushing grapes at her grandfather's house.
What should the reader understand about the "fancies which ordinary images were stirring up"?
a. The fancies are most likely not ordinary at all.
b. The fancies are quite normal despite the surroundings.
c. The fancies have a reassuring quality.
d. The fancies will prove to be familiar in time.
~bourgeois
~coddled
~despotic
~dubious
2)After hearing the raucous, cheering response to Adam’s speech, Mr. James feared that his new student body president might be an amateur_______
~demagogue
~despot
~enigma
~bourgeoisie
1)Because he was coddled as a child, Rob was a rather self-centered teenager.
Coddle- it refers to the act of treating someone with excessive or extreme kindness and care. Hence, in the above sentence, The word coddled suits best as, Rob was more self- centered that is always centering things around himself for own benefit. He was in such a way because since childhood he had been given excessive care and kindness because of which he can't relate with others out of care or kindness.
2)After hearing the raucous, cheering response to Adam’s speech, Mr. James feared that his new student body president might be an amateur demagogue.
Demagogue- It refers to a political leader who claims support by affirming with the popular desires rather than being rational and make judgments accordingly.