Read the selection in your Student Edition and choose the best answer to each question. A Desperate Trek Across America
by Andrés Reséndez
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The author uses a rhetorical question in paragraph 13 to -
b
insert his own opinion about the group
emphasize the confusion of the slavers
explain the appearance of the Indians
describe the thoughts of Cabeza de Vaca

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b. being sliced open by a giant blade c. being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive