Close Reading of Rushing West 1. What is the main/central idea of this text? Provide text evidence to support your thinking.

2. Describe the impact the journey had on the prospectors traveling to California during the Gold Rush. Provide text evidence to support your thinking.

3. How did the forty-niners feel about traveling overland to California in 1849? Provide text evidence to support your thinking.

Go to page Rushing West Page 27-29

the correct answer would be d, i never like waking up.

explanation:

iambic tetrameter is a meter which is basically a line consisting of four feet of iambic and it is used in poetry. it consists of unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. in this question, the only statement which is giving the feel of being stressed is option d, which says that i never like waking up. it means the person is feeling stressed whenever he wakes up. he never likes to wake up and and whenever he wakes up, he doesn't like it. so a sense or feel of being stressed is in this statement.  

answer; (d) i believe the best answer is ; ///people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier- than-air machine;

i would need to know the specific part of the passage your referring to ?