Improving Vocabulary with Word Parts and Context Clues — Unit test

Question 11 • Common Core ELA 9 - ELA3009 A-IC

Reread "The Beginnings of the Maasai,” and then answer the question.One purpose of "The Beginnings of the Maasai” is to explain the weather.

Answer

The sky god is powerful, but can change from nurturing to vengeful depending on our behavior.

Sometimes Enkai is Enkai Narok, the Black God, happy with us and blanketing the sky with dark clouds that pour out rain to nourish the plains.

In these times, the sun grows incredibly hot until the earth dries up and becomes barren.

My father tells me that the eruption was so violent that it broke the earth away from the sky and flung Enkai and all of the cattle high up into the heavens.

Explanation

Choice B directly explains weather by describing dark clouds bringing rain that nourishes the plains. Choice C also describes hot, dry conditions, but B most clearly shows how the story explains weather as part of Enkai’s changing behavior and its effects on the land.

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