This comes from the book “ <em><u>Hum</u></em> “ written by <u>Naomi Shihab Nye,</u> in which she describes the life of Sami Salsaa who came with his parents to live in America. After the 9-11 attack people started to stereotype him.
Question: In “Hum,” which describes Sami’s feelings when he first arrives in Lubbock?
Answer: A. He is hopeful about life in America.
What i found on the dictionary is “pleased or willing under the circumstances”
Answer:
D. Superstitious is the correct answer.
Explanation:
The narrator from the house of Usher from Edagr Allan Poe, describes Usher's own work of art as:
D. as intense, ghastly, and inappropriate
here we have a quotation from the short story where we read the description of the painting:
A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device. Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth. No outlet was observed in any portion of its vast extent, and no torch, or other artificial source of light was discernible; yet a flood of intense rays rolled throughout, and bathed the whole in a ghastly and inappropriate splendour.
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