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allochka39001 [22]
3 years ago
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Question: In this passage from “The Devil and Tom Walker,” what cultural attitude is expressed by the people living at that time

and place?
TITLE: _/ From “The Devil and Tom Walker” \_

Passage:   It was late in the dusk of evening when Tom Walker reached the old fort, and he paused there awhile to rest himself. Anyone but he would have felt unwilling to linger in this lonely, melancholy place, for the common people had a bad opinion of it, from the stories handed down from the time of the Indian wars; when it was asserted that the savages held incantations here, and made sacrifices to the evil spirit.”

Possible Answers:

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A: They believed Indians to be primitive people with superstitious beliefs and practices.

B: They believed it was foolish to go out into the surrounding forests and swamps alone.

C: They feared that Indian uprisings would soon take place in the region.
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2 answers:
AnnZ [28]3 years ago
4 0

B. is the answer

fellow user

Vladimir79 [104]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

A: They believed Indians to be primitive people with superstitious beliefs and practices.

Explanation:

The text shows that the people of that region were afraid of being in that lonely and melancholy place where Tom Walker was. This fear was created by a cultural concept that said the Indians of that region were primitive people with superstitious beliefs and practices. This is because a story was passed from generation to generation that confirmed that the Indians maintained enchantments in that place and made sacrifices to the evil spirit.

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