ANSWER PLS: Which sentence from the text develops the idea that many explorers have searched for the legendary land of El Dorado? [HINT: Which sentence does the author use to support the idea that many have struggled to find El Dorado?

Which sentence describes an actual event that may have led people to believe that the chieftain of El Dorado was covered in gold? [HINT: Which choice helps the reader understand the origin of the myth of the golden chieftain?

Describe how the mythical El Dorado was different from the actual place where the Muisca people and their chief lived. Include at least one quote and specific examples from the account to support your answer. [HINT: How did the stories about the city being filled with riches differ from the reality of the Muisca region?

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant