Question

read the passage. there are several questions about this passage. from settled in the wild 1 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. 2 absentmindedly, 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 the inward eye which is the bliss of solitude: and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils. i say the poem and see wordsworths 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 packages of seeds, each of which weighs only a few grams— bright - colored nectar - drinking birds, each of whom— have already whirred in erratic about the weight of four or five of these seeds, running the gulf of mexico in a flocks across five hundred miles of open water, running the gulf of mexico in a twenty - six - hour heat. 4 hummers do exactly what physiologists once insisted they could not do. a bird that weighs so little, they argued, cannot go from the yucatán to the 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:

1. The passage mentions the author's hope for both nasturtium seeds to thrive and humming - birds to return, showing a parallel.
2. It is stated that the flowers from the seeds will provide nectar for the birds, creating a connection.
3. There is no indication that planting seeds reaffirms the belief that humming - birds will return in the sense described.
4. There is no mention of the author worrying while planting seeds or about the birds in this context.
5. There is no mention of the seeds helping birds find a location they are seeking.

Answer:

1. The seeds will eventually thrive in the author's yard, just as the birds will.
2. The seeds will create flowers that will provide nectar for the birds to eat.