1. Why is Sylvia so torn about whether the help the hunter? What does she decide to do? How is the entire episode depicted by Jewett in this story shown to be a rite of passage for Sylvia? Answer: (Score for Question 2: ___ of 20 points) 2. What qualities does Sarah Orne Jewett attribute to rural New England and its people in “A White Heron”? Do you think readers who hailed from this part of the country when the story was published in 1886 would have appreciated or agreed with Jewett’s depiction of themselves and their region? Why or why not? Use examples from the story in support of your response. Answer: (Score for Question 3: ___ of 20 points) 3. Consider Stephen Crane’s story “The Open Boat.” Describe and explain the feelings that the men in the boat have toward nature, fate, and their fellow human beings as they are able to make their way close to land but are unable to reach it and the safety it offers. Cite specific examples and details from the text in your response. Answer: Type your answer here. (Score for Question 4: ___ of 30 points) 4. In “The Open Boat,” Stephen Crane includes the following passage as the likelihood of the men surviving their ordeal continues to diminish: When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples. Any visible expression of nature would surely be pelleted with his jeers. Then, if there be no tangible thing to hoot he feels, perhaps, the desire to confront a personification and indulge in pleas, bowed to one knee, and with hands supplicant, saying: “Yes, but I love myself.”