Question

Read the excerpt from Dwight Okita's "In Response to Executive Order 9066".

Answer 1

The answer is that it was bleak an unfavorable place where typically nothing thrives

Answer 2

bleak and unfavorable places where typically nothing thrives.

In the passage, the narrator wants to grow tomatoes. However, the father says that the seeds will not grow where they are going. Since his response speaks to the tomato plant's inability to grow, not the behavior of the people, the last option is not correct. Also incorrect is the answer about the fruits and vegetables from outside sources because they have no bearing on whether or not the tomatoes will grow. The detail about them being located far away from the speaker's current residence is true, but is not the best answer for this passage. The detail about the tomato plants not being able to grow shows that nothing will thrive in an internment camp. When something thrives, it lives and grows.