Question

read the passage. there are several questions about this passage. from settled in the wild it is a rainy morning, the first week of may, good weather to plant nasturtiums. i sit on the porch steps with rubber boots on, a baseball cap, and a slicker, holding the packages of seeds i bought at the feed store in town yesterday. the rain is steady and cold, the light is steel gray, and the yard is patchy and wet. but the pictures on the packages vibrate with color. nothing looks as good as these nasturtium flowers right now: deep red, eye - jolting orange, electric yellow. absent - mindedly, i begin to recite william wordsworths \i wandered lonely as a cloud\ to myself. i have known the poem by heart ever since my father taught it to me when i was a child. for oft, when on my couch i lie in vacant or in pensive mood, they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude; and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils. wordsworths inner eye saw daffodils. i say the poem and see hummingbirds. the nasturtiums are for them, and planting the flowers is my gesture of faith that they will come back to my yard once more. as i rip open the packages and push the seeds into the dirt, i know that these tiny bright - colored nectar - drinking birds, each of whom weighs only a few grams - about the weight of four or five of these seeds - have already whirred in erratic flocks across five hundred miles of open water, running the gulf of mexico in a twenty - six hour beat. hummers do exactly what physiologists once insisted they could not do. a bird that weighs so little, they argued, cannot go from the yucatan to the mouth of the big muddy without a refueling stop. such a dot of a bird cannot carry the extra fat it needs to get across all that water. halfway, the birds should self - destruct, should burn up and fall like a cloud of cinders. but now we know that they can carry the fat they need, and they do, instead of burning up. they land in the antebellum gardens of the south, pooped, drooped, and alive. and another spring has begun. the ruby - throated is the only species of hummingbird that always turns east, here as the nasturtiums put out their first brave leaves. they will be here as the nasturtiums put out their first brave leaves. hummers are built for heat, and the sweet profusion of flowers. their tail feathers draw them down into mexico and central america, but it astonishes me that a bird this small flies so far north, home for some of them is right here in this clearing. a precise measure on their internal compasses, and every spring they will be back. select two connections the author makes between the nasturtium seeds and the hummingbirds. 1. the seeds will eventually thrive in the authors yard, just as the birds will. 2. the seeds will create flowers that will provide nectar for the birds to eat. 3. planting the seeds reaffirms the authors belief that the hummingbirds will return. 4. planting the seeds makes the author worry, while also worrying about the birds. 5. the seeds will grow into plants that help the birds find the location they are seeking.

Explanation:

The passage mentions that the nasturtium seeds will grow into flowers which will provide nectar for the humming - birds to eat. Also, planting the seeds is a gesture of faith that the hummingbirds will return.

Answer:

1. The seeds will create flowers that will provide nectar for the birds to eat.
2. Planting the seeds reaffirms the author’s belief that the hummingbirds will return.