(This is a test on USA Test Prep) As the driver closed the door upon us, I heard him whisper to the three countrymen, "How do you suppose a fellow feels shut up in the cage with a she tiger?"

When the narrator overhears the driver whisper the phrase "How do you suppose a fellow feels shut up in the cage with a she tiger?" to his countrymen, how does he respond?

A) The narrator is unsure how he feels having just realized his wife is a she tiger.
B) The narrator is frustrated that the driver does not understand his wife's nature.
C) The narrator is deeply offended by the suggestion that his new wife is a she tiger.
D) The narrator thinks that the question asked by the driver has nothing to do with his situation.

Which sentence uses the italicized vocabulary word correctly? a. the poet paid homage to the evil killer by eulogizing him in an epic poem. b. the instruction was written in iambic pentameter. c. the painting, an authentic work, was copied from picasso's sketch book. d. blake showed his maturation when he snuck a piece of pie from the kitchen.

Ineed writing a reflective essay about hiking?

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant