Based on this excerpt from "the way to rainy mountain" by n. scott momaday, what can you infer was not a prominent part of the author's culture?

their wives and daughters served them well. the women might indulge themselves; gossip was at once the mark and compensation of their servitude. they made loud and elaborate talk among themselves, full of jest and gesture, fright and false alarm. they went abroad in fringed and flowered shawls, bright beadwork and german silver. they were at home in the kitchen, and they prepared meals that were banquets.

elaborately made traditional clothing

food in cultural celebrations

men and women adhering to traditional gender roles

men cooking holiday meals

Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.

How does crane's depiction of the way information was spread in the nineteenth century affect the novel? crane seeks to use the novel as a way to criticize the journalists of the time for how they glorified war as a means of union propaganda. by depicting the extent to which newspapers were circulated, crane seeks to expose the lack of unbiased reporting at the time. by giving newspapers a major role in the novel, crane seeks to make a connection between the increasing role of the military in national affairs and the decline of farming. crane captures the power of journalistic reports at a time when it was the primary means of transmitting information to a broad audience by showing its influence on henry.

In act 5, which of the following seems to carry power in rome? a. violence b. rhetoric c. hope d. defeat