60 points
which six sentences from this creation story best show the elements of an earth diver story?

a. the hoga came down from above and found earth covered with water.
they flew in every direction.
b. they sought four gods who would them and drive the water away.
they found not one. then elk came.
c. he had a loud voice, and he shouted to the four corners of the sky.
d. the four winds came in answer.
e. they blew upon the water and it vanished upwards, in a mist.
then the people could see the rocks. now there was only a little space on the rocks. they knew they must have more room. the people were crowded.
f. so they sent muskrat down into the water.
he did not come back. he was drowned.
g. then they sent loon down.
he did not come back. he was drowned.
h. then they sent beaver down into the water.
the water was too deep. beaver was drowned. then crawfish dived into the water. he was gone a long time.
i. when he came up there was a little mud in his claws.
crawfish was so tired he died.
j. but the people took the mud out of his claws and made the land.

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant