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When reading "Nameless, Tennessee", we know that we are looking for a central idea and NOT a theme because

Question 4 options:

its a short story. Short stories only have a central idea.

its a non-fiction text. Non-fiction does not have a theme, only central idea.

themes are directly stated and there isn't one directly stated in "Nameless, Tennessee".

None of these.
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Question 5 (1 point)

Read this passage.
"I got some bad ham meat one day," Miss Ginny said, "and took to vomitin'. All day, all night. Hangin' on the drop edge of yonder. I said to Thurmond, 'Thurmond, unless you want shut of me, call the doctor.’”
It is easy to notice that Miss Ginny and the other residents of Nameless have their own dialect. What does Miss Ginny mean when she says "unless you want shut of me"?

Question 5 options:

It means Thurmond is going to lock her out of the store.

It means that she wants the narrator to shut the door.

It means that Miss Ginny thinks she is so sick she may die.

None of these.
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Question 6 (1 point)

Read the excerpt.
"We had a doctor on the ridge in them days. As good as any doctor alivin'. He'd cut a crooked toenail or deliver a woman. Dead these last years."
How do the details in this excerpt help to develop the central idea?

Question 6 options:

They give insight into the doctor’s motivation for helping people.

They depict the poverty and lifelessness of the town.

They explain why people wanted to get away from the town.

They reveal some of the meaningful human history of the unnamed town.

Answer 1

4. Answer: Option B

"Nameless, Tennessee" is a non-fiction text. Non-fiction does not have a theme, only central idea.

Step-by-step explanation:

William Least Heat Moon is the author of Nameless Tennessee, he was a travel writer. He enjoys the origins people and their interesting stories. Because of this reason, Moon visited the Nameless Tennessee. It is an unincorporated community and a small town in united States.

The writing of does not have a theme because the writing is based on the facts and real events of people which can be history and biography. So it only focused on only central idea but not a theme since it is considered as a non-fiction text.

5. Answer: Option C

It means that Miss Ginny thinks she is so sick she may die.

Step-by-step explanation:

The residents in Nameless Tennessee have different dialect that shows their personality. Here in this passage, Miss Ginny says that she had a ham meat day that tool her to vomiting all the day and she asked Thurmond to call the doctor before she die.

Because she thinks that she will die because of the ham meat. So the sentence "unless you want shut of me" used to narrate the word dying.

6. Answer: Option B

They depict the poverty and lifelessness of the town.

Step-by-step explanation:

William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highway is an autobiographical travel plan that tells about his visits to unknown, forgotten towns in rural US, as well as his conversations with the inhabitants of these cities.

In this passage, the person he talks to talks about a city where there is no doctor. It shows that poverty and non-life are at the heart of the book's idea. This excerpt is the quoted sayings that lead the communication between speakers and the readers in a poetic way.

Answer 2

4. When reading "Nameless, Tennessee", we know that we are looking for a central idea and NOT a theme B. because its a non-fiction text. Non-fiction does not have a theme, only central idea.

5. "Unless you want shut of me" means C. that Miss Ginny thinks she is so sick she may die.

6. The details in the excerpt B. depict the poverty and lifelessness of the town.