Me ! _ 1.reread lines 1-16. what does the description suggest about qualities of the person called moses? 2. interpret reread lines 28–32. what is the effect of the author’s use of the phrase “in pursuit of four-footed game”? 3. interpret identify the parallelism in lines 47–49. how does this technique contribute to the effectiveness of these lines? 4. infer in lines 59–70, the author describes the difficulty of the task facing harriet tubman. what is tubman’s response? explain what her words and actions reveal about her. 5. analyze reread lines 258–265. find and explain three examples of the techniques the author uses to make the events come alive in this paragraph. 6. draw conclusions based on the characterization of harriet tubman in this biography, how would you describe her? fill out a chart like the one shown with examples from the selection, and then write a one-sentence description of this famous woman.

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.