Question

read the passages and choose the best answer to each question. passage 1: from my ántonia by willa cather the narrator of this story is jim burden, a 10 - year - old boy who has lived with his grandparents in nebraska since his parents death. shortly after his arrival, the shimerda family moves to the neighboring homestead. (1)on sunday morning otto fuchs was to drive us over to make the acquaintance of our new bohemian¹ neighbours. we were taking them some provisions, as they had come to live on a wild place where there was no garden or chicken - house, and very little broken land. fuchs brought up a sack of potatoes and a piece of cured pork from the cellar, and grandmother packed some loaves of saturdays bread, a jar of butter, and several pumpkin pies in the straw of the wagon - box. we clambered up to the front seat and jolted off past the little pond and along the road that climbed to the big cornfield. this question has two parts. first, answer part a. then, answer part b. part a based on the setting in passage 1, what is a theme of the story? ∘ one must know how to farm before moving to a rural part of the country. ∘ immigrants to a new country can trust people from their homeland. ∘ moving to a country with a different language is challenging. ∘ winter is the hardest time of the year.

Explanation:

The passage introduces the Bohemian Shimerdas, who have settled on a harsh, undeveloped homestead with no established food sources. The Burdens bring them provisions because the family lacks the resources to sustain themselves in their new rural American setting, which implies the difficulties of adapting to an unfamiliar new country, including practical hardships that come with relocation to a place with different conditions and likely language barriers as immigrants. The other options are unsupported: there is no focus on farming knowledge as a prerequisite, no mention of trusting fellow homeland immigrants, and no reference to winter being the hardest season.

Answer:

C. Moving to a country with a different language is challenging.