Which statements reflect the ideas in the passage? Check the two boxes that best apply. Americans should write courageously and powerfully. American literature should be messy, chaotic, and nothing like European poetry. Americans should write only about nature because it is what makes the United States distinctive. American literature should reflect the unique American landscape.

Scientists observed a rock stratum and discovered some fossils. the image shows the fossils they discovered. what can you interpret from the image? an illustration showing layers rock with fossils embedded in some rock layers1. the dinosaur and the mammoth existed after the trilobites.2. the dinosaur and the armored fish existed before the trilobites.3. the trilobites and the armored fish died before the dinosaur.4. the trilobites and the armored fish were born after the dinosaur.5. the early mammoth is older than the trilobites.