From All Gold Canyon It was the green heart of the canyon, where the walls swerved back from the rigid plan and relieved their harshness of line by making a little
sheltered nook and filling it to the brim with sweetness and roundness and softness. Here all things rested. Even the narrow stream ceased its
turbulent down-rush long enough to form a quiet pool. Knee-deep in the water, with drooping head and half-shut eyes, drowsed a red-coated.
many-antlered buck.
On one side, beginning at the very lip of the pool, was a tiny meadow, a cool, resilient surface of green that extended to the base of the
frowning wall. Beyond the pool a gentle slope of earth ran up and up to meet the opposing wall. Fine grass covered the slope-grass that was
spangled with flowers, with here and there patches of color, orange and purple and golden. Below, the canyon was shut in. There was no view. The
walls leaned together abruptly and the canyon ended in a chaos of rocks, moss-covered and hidden by a green screen of vines and creepers and
boughs of trees. Up the canyon rose far hills and peaks, the big foothills, pine-covered and remote.
(From "All Gold Canyon" by Jack London)
Which phrases from the passage support the inference that the canyon is peaceful?
O 1. "sheltered nook," "all things rested"
2. "the very lip of the pool." "tiny meadow"
3. "spangled with flowers," "orange and purple and golden"
O 4. "chaos of rocks." "hidden by a green screen"