Question
The Aristocrats
by C. Safos
During the storm, Evan took all the oxygen tanks below deck and tied them together. He wished he had completed the task earlier as his skipper had asked, but now they were all in the thick of it.
The lightning crawled across the sky like roadways on an atlas. The thunder was shaking loose what courage the crew had managed to muster after the skipper's big speech. Now Evan could see it in the faces of each of his shipmates. They were floundering in the middle of the Atlantic with no direction, like a leaf on the wind. They couldn't even follow the North Star, a natural compass. The black clouds above them billowed like lungs taking in air. As they bulged, they blotted out everything but lightning.
The ship dipped back and forth, bow first, into the tide, like a needle on a sewing machine. The spray from the storm and the push of the tide doused everyone on the ship's deck right down to their socks.
Then, off the starboard side, Evan saw the whisper of a light nearly obscured by the confusion of dark clouds merging with the black of the sea. As the sky shifted with the storm, the light began to open itself up to the crew of the Emoke Pulay. Suddenly, the separation of the sea and sky became apparent. The skipper howled like a madman, "Steady as she goes, boys!"
4
In paragraph 2, the word muster means
A.
to trouble.
B.
to awaken.
C.
to confuse.
D.
to gather.
by C. Safos
During the storm, Evan took all the oxygen tanks below deck and tied them together. He wished he had completed the task earlier as his skipper had asked, but now they were all in the thick of it.
The lightning crawled across the sky like roadways on an atlas. The thunder was shaking loose what courage the crew had managed to muster after the skipper's big speech. Now Evan could see it in the faces of each of his shipmates. They were floundering in the middle of the Atlantic with no direction, like a leaf on the wind. They couldn't even follow the North Star, a natural compass. The black clouds above them billowed like lungs taking in air. As they bulged, they blotted out everything but lightning.
The ship dipped back and forth, bow first, into the tide, like a needle on a sewing machine. The spray from the storm and the push of the tide doused everyone on the ship's deck right down to their socks.
Then, off the starboard side, Evan saw the whisper of a light nearly obscured by the confusion of dark clouds merging with the black of the sea. As the sky shifted with the storm, the light began to open itself up to the crew of the Emoke Pulay. Suddenly, the separation of the sea and sky became apparent. The skipper howled like a madman, "Steady as she goes, boys!"
4
In paragraph 2, the word muster means
A.
to trouble.
B.
to awaken.
C.
to confuse.
D.
to gather.
Answers
GPT-4o mini
In paragraph 2, the word "muster" means **D. to gather.**
In this context, it refers to the crew trying to gather their courage in the face of the storm.
In this context, it refers to the crew trying to gather their courage in the face of the storm.