Read this excerpt from The Way to Rainy Mountain. You know, everything had to begin, and this is how it

was...

Which of the three types of narrative used in the novel does this excerpt

belong to?

O

A. Historical record

B. Short narrative

C. Instruction

O

D. Myth

The speaker in the “to a mouse” regrets that the mouse runs away so fast because the

Jargon is a specialized vocabulary of a particular group trade or profession

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)