Select the TWO best answers from from a passage that would support the central idea that nature can be severe and unkind.

Question 7 options:

"Sweating in the heat, we had lost the whole day, dreading to be buried alive in the drifting sand."


"Besides, the infidel was known to carry money, a sum that camp-fire talk had inflated to large proportions."


"Sand in the scanty food, sand in the brackish water--water that was drunk lukewarm from a clammy, loathsome water skin."


"Lulled by the soft music of the brook, in infinite content, I sank back on to the soft carpets, and was soon in a dreamless slumber."