The former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. Air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. Among these I found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: The Abbot, by Walter Scott, The Devout Communnicant and The Memoirs of Vidocq. I liked the last best because its leaves were yellow. The wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which I found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump. He had been a very charitable priest; in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.

Question

The former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. Air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. Among these I found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: The Abbot, by Walter Scott, The Devout Communnicant and The Memoirs of Vidocq. I liked the last best because its leaves were yellow. The wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which I found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump. He had been a very charitable priest; in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.
Use the passage from “Araby” by James Joyce to answer the question.

Which detail does the author leave uncertain in this excerpt?

(1 point)
Responses

Why the former tenant left his furniture to his sister.
Why the former tenant left his furniture to his sister.

Why the former tenant left his bicycle pump in the garden.
Why the former tenant left his bicycle pump in the garden.

Why the garden behind the house was wild and untended.
Why the garden behind the house was wild and untended.

Why loose papers and books were found behind the kitchen.
Why loose papers and books were found behind the kitchen.
Question 3
3. What is the meaning of the word tone?(1 point)
Responses

The feeling a word evokes.
The feeling a word evokes.

The word writers use to support their purpose.
The word writers use to support their purpose.

The writers attitude toward the subject.
The writers attitude toward the subject.

A bitter expression that often means the opposite.

GPT-4o mini · Answer

For your first question regarding the excerpt, the detail that the author leaves uncertain is:

Why the former tenant left his furniture to his sister.

As for the second question about the meaning of the word "tone," the correct response is:

The writer's attitude toward the subject.