What connotation does the phrase "Hider of the North" convey? Cold Magical Rare Stale Question 3(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points) (04.02 MC) Which of the following words has a positive connotation? Bewildering Drooping Beauty Fording Question 4(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points) (04.02 MC) Which of the following words has a negative connotation? Meadow Mosses Stream Swamp Question 5(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points) (04.02 LC) Which of the following questions should you ask in order to understand an author's diction? Are sentences written using correct and commonly accepted grammar and spelling? Do the words have positive, neutral, or negative feelings and ideas associated with them? How does the author support his or her position in each paragraph of the argument? Why does the author include these specific statistics, facts, graphs, and images? Question 6 (Essay Worth 10 points) (04.02 MC) Read the following passage from Muir's "Calypso Borealis" and answer the question. After earning a few dollars working on my brother-in law's farm near Portage [Wisconsin], I set off on the first of my long lonely excursions, botanising in glorious freedom around the Great Lakes and wandering through innumerable tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps, and forests of maple, basswood, ash, elm, balsam, fir, pine, spruce, hemlock … Identify and explain the tone of this passage. What specific words contribute to the tone? Then, explain how the tone of the passage would change if the words "burdensome labor" replaced the words "glorious freedom." Be sure to identify the new tone and explain how the changed words create that tone. Your response should be a paragraph of 3–5 sentences. Question 7 (Essay Worth 20 points) (04.02 MC) Read the following passage from Muir's "Calypso Borealis" and respond to the prompt. [2] The rarest and most beautiful of the flowering plants I discovered on this first grand excursion was Calypso borealis (the Hider of the North). I had been fording streams more and more difficult to cross