Question

Select the correct text in the passage.

Consider this sentence from The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday:

Which TWO the bracketed phrases in the passage help the reader to understand the meaning of the word deicide?

The word deity means "god." The suffix -cide comes from the Latin -cida, which means "k i l l."


a. gone out of mankind
b. ancient awe
c. there to beg and barter for an animal from the Goodnight herd
d. Forbidden without cause the essential act of their faith

couldn't post the story cause it kept saying there was hurtful words, sorry!

Answer 1

I believe your answer is B

Answer 2

a. gone out of mankind

d. Forbidden without cause the essential act of their faith

Step-by-step explanation:

The word "deicide" represents something that kills God or that tends to destroy the idea of ​​God within an individual or a doctrine. Based on this, we can conclude that the sentences in brackets in the passage help the reader to understand the meaning of the word "deicide" are the phrases of letters A and D.