From at a window
PART A: Which of the following best states a central theme of this poem?

A
Love is a beautiful thing, and something not worth settling for.
B
Sometimes life's worst hardships are preferable to the pain that can be experienced from love.
C
Ask for what you wish for most in life, and sometimes you shall receive.
D
Loneliness is the worst kind of suffering.
2.
PART B: Which phrase from the poem best supports the answer to Part A?

A
"Give me hunger, pain and want, / Shut me out with shame and failure" ( Lines 4-5)
B
"Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! / But leave me a little love" ( Lines 7-8)
C
"One little wandering, western star / Thrust out from the changing shores of shadow" ( Lines 14-15)
D
"And wait and know the coming / Of a little love" ( Lines 18-19)

Read the summary of the first three paragraphs of “the world on turtle’s back.”[1] in the beginning, there was no land, only the great ocean. [2] the sky-world, the home of the gods, was above the ocean. [3] a sacred tree stood at the center. [4] one of the gods pulled out some of its roots for his pregnant wife. [5] this created a hole in the floor of the sky-world. [6] the man's wife fell through the hole toward the ocean below, clutching the roots in her hand.which is the best way to combine sentences 4 and 5? a) one of the gods pulled out some of its roots for his pregnant wife, which created a hole in the floor of the sky-world.b) one of the gods pulled out some of its roots for his pregnant wife, he created a hole in the floor of the sky-world.c) one of the gods pulled out some of its roots for his pregnant wife which created a hole in the floor of the sky-world.d) one of the gods pulled out some of its roots for his pregnant wife he created a hole in the floor of the sky-world.