Based on this excerpt from "the way to rainy mountain" by n. scott momaday, what can you infer was not a prominent part of the author's culture?

their wives and daughters served them well. the women might indulge themselves; gossip was at once the mark and compensation of their servitude. they made loud and elaborate talk among themselves, full of jest and gesture, fright and false alarm. they went abroad in fringed and flowered shawls, bright beadwork and german silver. they were at home in the kitchen, and they prepared meals that were banquets.

elaborately made traditional clothing
food in cultural celebrations
men and women adhering to traditional gender roles
men cooking holiday meals

Select the correct text in the passage. which part of this excerpt from homer's odyssey uses an epic simile? the king himself the vases ranged with care; then bade his followers to the feast prepare. a victim ox beneath the sacred hand of great alcinous falls, and stains the sand. to jove the eternal (power above all powers! who wings the winds, and darkens heaven with showers) the flames ascend: till evening they prolong the rites, more sacred made by heavenly song; for in the midst, with public honours graced, thy lyre divine, demodocus! was placed. all, but ulysses, heard with fix'd delight; he sate, and eyed the sun, and wish’d the night; slow seem’d the sun to move, the hours to roll, his native home deep-imaged in his soul. as the tired ploughman, spent with stubborn toil, whose oxen long have torn the furrow'd soil, sees with delight the sun's declining ray, when home with feeble knees he bends his way to late repast (the day's hard labour done); so to ulysses welcome set the sun; then instant to alcinous and the rest (the scherian states) he turn’d, and thus address'd: "o thou, the first in merit and command! and you the peers and princes of the land! may every joy be yours! nor this the least, when due libation shall have crown'd the feast,