Heroes: Final Assessment Directions: Please respond to the prompt on the lines below. Use complete sentences. Cite evidence
when appropriate.
Prompt: Over the course of this unit, you have gathered details from literary and informational texts
about heroes. Use the evidence you have gathered to answer the question: Why do people act
heroically? Support your answer using reasons and evidence from a variety of the texts covered in this
unit.

allusion   is the right answer

question 1: d) the old man continued, "in the long run, what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies.'"

question 2: d) by providing a different perspective and encouraging the englishman to never give up, the boy him to discover the alchemist.

question 3: c) the stones he gave santiago the boy to recognize omens, which will him on his journey to find his personal legend.

question 4: d) when the englishman wants to quit, santiago doesn’t allow the englishman to give up.

question 5: a) by instructing the englishman to go and try, the englishman is motivated to continue on his journey toward his personal legend.

explanation:

answer; (b); the abolitionist movement;