Question

Can someone please help me. I have check marks by the answers on some of them that I think are right. Number 6 is a partial answer.

Question 1

Use context clues to determine the definition of the word "ward".


Algernon: Have you told Gwendolyn yet that you have an excessively pretty ward who is only just eighteen?


a person, usually a minor, under the care and control of a guardian appointed by their parents or a court. ✔

a separate room in a hospital, typically one allocated to a particular type of patient.

an administrative division of a city or borough that typically elects and is represented by a councilor or councilors.

any of the internal ridges or bars in a lock which prevent the turning of any key which does not have grooves of corresponding form or size.


Question 2

Which TWO choices are reasons why both Jack and Algernon feel the need to invent E

Answer 1

Answer to question 1- A person, especially a minor, who has been legally placed under the care of a guardian or a court. the state of being under the care or control of a legal guardian. guardianship over a minor or some other person legally incapable of managing his or her own affairs.

Answer to question 2- Both Jack and Algernon feel the need to create a reason to escape the constraints of their lives because of the taxing nature of these expectations. Attending to his invalid friend Bunbury paints Algernon as a moral and reliable friend and allows him the liberty to do as he pleases outside of London.