Analyze these descriptions and then use the drop-down menus to choose the best summary for each passage. They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly. When a halt was made, they dropped down in the traces like dead dogs, and the spark dimmed and paled and seemed to go out.

ANSWER: THE DOGS ARE STARVING.

Shorn of its glamour and romance, Arctic travel became to them a reality too harsh for their manhood and womanhood. Mercedes ceased weeping over the dogs, being too occupied with weeping over herself and with quarrelling with her husband and brother.

ANSWER: LIFE IN ALASKA WAS TOO DIFFICULT