The right-handed twin accused his brother of murdering their mother, and their quarrels continued until it was time to bury their mother. With the help of their grandmother, they made her a grave. From her head grew the three sister plants: corn, beans, and squash. From her heart grew tobacco, which people still use to give thanks in ceremony. She is called “our mother” and the people dance and sing to her to make the plants grow. What can a reader infer about Iroquois culture from this passage? Check the three best answers. Corn, beans, and squash are important to Iroquois culture. Iroquois ceremonial practices include singing and using tobacco. Corn symbolizes grief in Iroquois culture. The Iroquois must constantly engage in conflict to defend their land. The Iroquois use creation myths to help explain their cultural practices.

A: corn, beans, and squash are important to Iroquois culture.

B: Iroquois ceremonial practices include singing and using tobacco.

C: The Iroquois use creation  myths to help explain their cultural  practices.

Explanation:

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.