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"By the Waters of Babylon," Part 1: Analyzing Setting

Question 10 • ELA 10B - 2023

Which details from the text best support the idea that the narrator is cautious in this new setting? Select two options.

Answer
A
“They are falling apart into great blocks of stone, and the forest is safer going.”
B
“There was the great river below, like a giant in the sun. It is very long, very wide.”
C
“It could eat all the streams we know and still be thirsty. Its name is Ou-dis-sun, the Sacred, the Long.”
D
“Toward the setting of the eighth sun, I came to the banks of the great river.”
E
“No man of my tribe had seen it, not even my father, the priest. It was magic and I prayed.”
Which details from the text best support the…