Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this narrative. Which details from "The Oasis: Africa" best support the central idea that nature can be severe and unkind?

Select each correct answer.

"Sweating in the heat, we had lost the whole day, dreading to be buried alive in the drifting sand."

"Lulled by the soft music of the brook, in infinite content, I sank back on to the soft carpets, and was soon in a dreamless slumber."

"Sand in the scanty food, sand in the brackish water—water that was drunk lukewarm from a clammy, loathsome water-skin."

"Footsore and weary, but ever before us the pointing finger of the Arab Sheikh, and his ceaseless: ‘On, on.’"