Which passage from "Names/Nombres"best supports the inference that Alvarez started to write at a young age ? At the hotel my mother was Missus Alburest, and I was little girl, as in, "Hey, little girl, stop riding the elevator up
and down. It's not a toy
"You know what your friend Shakespeare said, 'A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
The biggest gift was a portable typewriter from my parents for writing my stories and poems
Someday, the family predicted, my name would be well known throughout the United States.

Read the following excerpt from the way to rainy mountain by n. scott momaday: the young plains culture of the kiowas withered and died like grass that is burned in the prairie wind. there came a day like destiny; in every direction, as far as the eye could see, carrion (animal carcasses) lay out in the land. the buffalo was the animal representation of the sun, the essential and sacrificial victim of the sun dance. when the wild herds were destroyed, so too was the will of the kiowa people. which phrase in the passage most strongly contributes to its overall tone? a. day like destiny b. lay out in the land c. far as the eye could see d. withered and died like grass