Read the passage from “the beginnings of the maasai.” neiterkob was confused at first. it was one thing for an eruption to send cows flying up into the sky, but it was another problem entirely to get them down to earth again. the wise god knew how to solve the problem. enkai grew a giant fig tree out on the plains. the tree grew rapidly, and its branches grew so high that they reached up into the heavens. one by one, enkai sent the cattle walking down branches of the fig tree, all the way down to the roots at the ground. my father and our people accepted the cattle and began to herd them with the sticks that enkai had given us. now, the rest of the tribe calls my father the “beginner of the earth” because he mediates between enkai and our tribe, just as he did when the cattle returned from the sky. what does the passage explain?

Read the excerpt from "the storyteller." the smaller girl created a diversion by beginning to recite "on the road to mandalay.” she only knew the first line, but she put her limited knowledge to the fullest possible use. she repeated the line over and over again in a dreamy but resolute and very audible voice; it seemed to the bachelor as though some one had had a bet with her that she could not repeat the line aloud two thousand times without stopping. whoever it was who had made the wager was likely to lose his bet. "come over here and listen to a story,” said the aunt, when the bachelor had looked twice at her and once at the communication cord. the children moved listlessly towards the aunt’s end of the carriage. evidently her reputation as a storyteller did not rank high in their estimation. in a low, confidential voice, interrupted at frequent intervals by loud, petulant questionings from her listeners, she began an unenterprising and deplorably uninteresting story about a little girl who was good, and made friends with every one on account of her goodness, and was finally saved from a mad bull by a number of rescuers who admired her moral character. which instances of situational irony occur in the passage? select two options. a.) “whoever it was who had made the wager was likely to lose his bet.” b.) “‘come over here and listen to a story,’ said the aunt, when the bachelor had looked twice at her and once at the communication cord.” -- c.) “the children moved listlessly towards the aunt’s end of the carriage.” d.) “evidently her reputation as a story-teller did not rank high in their estimation.” -- e.) “in a low, confidential voice, interrupted at frequent intervals by loud, petulant questionings from her listeners, she began an unenterprising and deplorably uninteresting story about a little girl who was good.”