What is most closely the meaning of custody as it is used in paragraph 20 of the text?

Another day went by and we still had heard nothing. Then word came that he had been taken into custody and shipped out. Where to, or for how long? No one knew. All my brothers’ attempts to find out were fruitless.

The comparison between ships and gulls adds to the development of the following passage (paragraphs 4-5) mainly by explaining that .

We watched until the boats became a row of tiny white gulls on the horizon. Our vigil would end when they slipped over the edge and disappeared. You had to squint against the glare to keep them sighted, and with every blink you expected the last white speck to be gone.

But this time they didn’t disappear. They kept floating out there, suspended, as if the horizon had finally become what it always seemed to be from shore: the sea’s limit beyond which no man could sail. They floated a while, then they began to grow, tiny gulls becoming boats again, a white armada cruising toward us.

Why most likely did Papa burn the Japanese flag and various documents?

Which of the following inferences best explains why Papa didn’t resist arrest?

Which statement from the passage most strongly supports the correct answer to Question 5?

Which of these inferences about Mama is best supported by the final paragraphs of the excerpt?

What had they charged him with? We didn’t know either, until an article appeared in the Santa Monica paper, saying he had been arrested for delivering oil to Japanese submarines offshore.

My mother began to weep. It seems now that she wept for days. She was a small plump woman who laughed and cried easily, but I had never seen her cry like this. I couldn’t understand it. I remember clinging to her legs, wondering why everyone was crying. This was the beginning of a terrible, frantic time for all my family.

Which line from the previous passage most strongly supports the correct answer to Question 7?

possibly; within the range of imaginable outcomes

state of being kept by or in the charge of officers of the law

useless; no chance of being successful

a person who deliberately destroys property, often as an act of protest

full of confusion or disorder; agitated

The referee put an end to the ___________ shouting on the field.

The parade was delayed because a ______________slashed the tires on the main float.

______________ waters caused the boat to capsize.

Ally feared her efforts to be elected swim team captain were _________. SHE KNEW THEY ALREADY HAD SOMEONE ELSE IN MIND.

After running the red light and causing a deadly accident, Marcus was taken into ___________by the police.

________________, robots could perform most human jobs in the near future

We can _______________ say that at some point time in the near future schools will return back to normal.

“She was a small plump woman who laughed and cried easily, but I had never seen her cry like this.”

“He had attended military school in Japan until the age of seventeen, and part of him never got over that.”

“In typical Japanese fashion, they all wanted to be independent commercial fishermen, yet they almost always fished together.”

“...somehow everything had been done, and they were easing away from the wharf, joining the line of boats heading out past the lighthouse, into the harbor.”