Read the third paragraph from Muir's essay "Calypso Borealis" and answer the question.

[3] But when the sun was getting low and everything seemed most bewildering and discouraging, I found beautiful Calypso on the mossy bank of a stream, growing not in the ground but on a bed of yellow mosses in which its small white bulb had found a soft nest and from which its one leaf and one flower sprung. The flower was white and made the impression of the utmost simple purity like a snowflower. No other bloom was near it, for the bog a short distance below the surface was still frozen, and the water was ice cold. It seemed the most spiritual of all the flower people I had ever met. I sat down beside it and fairly cried for joy.

Select two words or phrases from the text that demonstrate Muir's scientific approach to nature.

"most bewildering"
"bed of yellow mosses"
"small white bulb"
"utmost simple purity"
"cried for joy"
Question 2(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points)
(04.01 MC)

Read the second paragraph from Muir's essay "Calypso Borealis" and answer the question.

[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 and wading bogs and swamps that seemed more and more extensive and more difficult to force one's way through. Entering one of these great tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps one morning, holding a general though very crooked course by compass, struggling through tangled drooping branches and over and under broad heaps of fallen trees, I began to fear that I would not be able to reach dry ground before dark, and therefore would have to pass the night in the swamp and began, faint and hungry, to plan a nest of branches on one of the largest trees or windfalls like a monkey's nest, or eagle's, or Indian's in the flooded forests of the Orinoco described by Humboldt.

What happens in this paragraph?

Muir discovers the beautiful Calypso Borealis in the branches of a tree in the swamp.
Muir encounters a large monkey's nest and an abandoned Indian's shelter in the forest.
Muir explores eagerly but begins to worry he will have to stay the night in the swamp.
Muir falls into the murky swamp water and becomes discouraged with his predicament.
Question 3(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points)
(04.01 LC)

Review the module's writing prompt and answer the question.

How have these two authors expressed their relationships with nature? After reading and analyzing "Calypso Borealis," an essay by John Muir, and William Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," write an essay in which you describe how each author views nature and answer the question. Support your discussion with evidence from the text.

According to the prompt, how will you support your analysis?

Descriptions of nature
Evidence from the text
Expert testimony
Researched facts