Read the following excerpt from leslie marmon silko’s story "the man to send rain clouds."

they turned off the highway onto the sandy pueblo road. not long after they passed the store and post office they saw father paul's car coming toward them. when he recognized their faces he slowed his car and waved for them to stop. the young priest rolled down the car window.

"did you find old teofilo? " he asked loudly.

leon stopped the truck. "good morning, father. we were just out to the sheep camp. everything is o. k. now."

" god for that. teofilo is a very old man. you really shouldn't allow him to stay at the sheep camp alone."

"no, he won't do that any more now."

what does this dialogue reveal about the priest’s standing within the community?
he is a trusted leader of the tribe.
he is considered to be an outsider.
he is a spiritual guide to the people.
he is disliked by most of the people.

Which best explains how the viewpoint in the greenberg interview differed from that in the informational text on thurgood marshall. a. the informational article provides an insider's view of the brown vs board of education case; the perspective of the greenberg interview is more distant.

What character asks for god's mercy on the lady at the end of the poem? arthur lancelot the poem's speaker the reaper

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant