WILL MAKE BRAINIEST + 10 POINTS QUESTION 5
What is most closely a theme of “La Juanita”?
Answer choices for the above question

A. Man must overcome nature before he can truly love.

B. Family is more important than love or country.

C. No matter our place of origin, we all have a common humanity.

D. A stopped clock is right twice a day.

QUESTION 6
Which sentence from the text best supports your answer to Question 5?
Answer choices for the above question

A. “There was not even the merest excuse for shelter out in the waters, and when Lake Pontchartrain grows angry, it devours without pity.”

B. “Was it not bad enough for his petite Juanita, his Spanish blossom, his hope of a family that had held itself proudly aloof from “dose Americain” from time immemorial, to have smiled upon this Mercer, this pale-eyed youth?”

C. “Mandeville indiscriminately distributed itself on piers, large and small, bath-house tops, trees, and craft of all kinds, from pirogue, dory, and pine-raft to pretentious cat-boat and shell-schooner.”

D. “He was no longer ‘un Americain’ now, he was a hero.”
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