Read the excerpt from "the tiger's whisker." one night yun ok approached to within a stone’s throw of the tiger’s cave. this time the tiger came a few steps toward her and stopped. the two of them stood looking at one another in the moonlight. it happened again the following night, and this time they were so close that yun ok could talk to the tiger in a soft, soothing voice. the next night, after looking carefully into yun ok’s eyes, the tiger ate the food that she held out for him. after that when yun ok came in the night, she found the tiger waiting for her on the trail. when the tiger had eaten, yun ok could gently rub his head with her hand. nearly six months had passed since the night of her first visit. at last one night, after caressing the animal’s head, yun ok said: "oh, tiger, generous animal, i must have one of your whiskers. do not be angry with me! " and she snipped off one of the whiskers. which word best describes yun ok? determined gentle cautious frightened

[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