Implied Setting: Mastery Test
Select the correct answer.
Where does the story occur?
Read the following selection, paying close attention to the
setting:
The road stretches flatly towards the horizon. The sun shimmers
on the hood of the speeding car as it hurtles west, windows
closed and air conditioner purring. Mountains loom in the
distance, but the bleak fields surrounding the road grow only
scrub trees and cactus. By the side of the road, the body of an
armadillo, hit by an earlier motorist as it tried to cross the road,
attracts flies
A in a swamp
B. In a desert
C. At the beach