Read this excerpt from mukherjee’s memoir and answer the question.

clark, who remained in iowa city until our youngest son finished high school, sent me newspaper accounts, and i turned them into stories. indian friends in atlanta took me to dinners and table gossip became stories. suddenly, i had begun appropriating the american language. my stories were about the hurly-burly of the unsettled magma between two worlds.

in the above excerpt, mukherjee’s imagery of “the hurly-burly of the unsettled magma”means what?

fact is stranger than fiction.
her stories were about people’s hidden lives that bubbled up like lava.
she liked to hear stories.
her stories were as explosive as molten lava.

Read the quotation from "an occurrence at owl creek bridge." and now he became conscious of a new disturbance. striking through the thought of his dear ones was a sound which he could neither ignore nor understand, a sharp, distinct, metallic percussion like the stroke of a blacksmith’s hammer upon the anvil; it had the same ringing quality. he wondered what it was, and whether immeasurably distant or near by—it seemed both. its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death knell. he awaited each stroke with impatience and—he knew not why—apprehension. the intervals of silence grew progressively longer, the delays became maddening. with their greater infrequency the sounds increased in strength and sharpness. they hurt his ear like the thrust of a knife; he feared he would shriek. what he heard was the ticking of his watch. which best describes the effect of the narration in the excerpt? it suggests that the man being executed feels tranquil and at peace. it suggests that the narrator is sympathetic to the man being executed. it suggests that the plot will become less tense as the story continues. it suggests that the story will become more intense and mysterious.

In at least 150 words, explain how richard wright use of dialogue in the short story "the man who was almost a man" contributes to the overall meaning of the story.

What is the main idea of this paragraph from the volcanoes section of the ready.gov website