Read this excerpt from "the world on turtle's back."

one day, when the girl had become a woman, a man appeared. no one knows where this man came from. perhaps he

was sent from the gods above. the girl was so filled with wonder to see this strange man, she lost her senses and

fainted. the man yielded two very different arrows, and laid them across the body of the girl in opposite directions,

then he disappeared.

which statement best describes the significance of the arrows?

they represent the fact that the woman will die in childbirth.

o they represent a warning from the man to the woman.

o they represent the man's intention to kill the woman.

they represent the twins that the woman will bear.

Returning from vietnam, we were given a parade. crowds of screaming people waving signs — not just on one road, one day. no, they were everywhere. every day. on the streets, on the television, on the radio. a hot, angry tangle of shaking fists and ugly words that threatened us like a monster with a hundred heads. our country had chewed us up and spit us out, and now we were being treated as if it were our fault. which sentence best uses figurative language to match the paragraph's tone? a. our feet were frozen in place as the street itself strained to hold us back. b. i felt unappreciated and condemned for actions i had thought were heroic. c. i hadn't expected to find myself in a rags-to-riches situation such as this. d. we had come home to a feeding frenzy and were being treated as bait.