Read the passage and answer the question. [1620] and yet the lord so upheld these persons, as in this general calamity they were not at all infected either with sickness, or lameness. and what i have said of these, i may say of many others who died . . that whilst they had health, yea, or any strength continuing, they were not wanting to any that had need of them. based on the above passage, to what did bradford attribute the fact that some people survived the disease in plymouth? luck health providence self-sufficiency

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.