Who is Joe DiMaggio in the novella? akind of tuna ba villager cBaseball great da type of shark

In Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago compares the physical difficulties of his left hand with an ailment suffered by Joe DiMaggio. What physical ailment does Joe DiMaggio play through? aBroken foot bBone Spurs cTorn meniscus in his knee dRotator Cuff Injury

The great Joe DiMaggio is obviously an idol of Santiago's. As mentioned in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, what is one of the reasons why Santiago idolizes this baseball player? aThey both share the same cultural heritage bThey both played amateur ball for the same team cBoth their fathers were fishermen dThey both play center field

Why is there so much talk about baseball, specifically Joe DiMaggio? aBaseball was the fishermen's only means of escape from the harshness of their existence. bSantiago and the other men in the village had pooled their small savings and bet on DiMaggio's team to win. They listened to the games, hoping to become rich. cSantiago identifies with DiMaggio, and sees that success is sometimes possible, no matter what the odds, if you want it enough. dDiMaggio's ancestors were from the village where Santiago lived. Santiago had known DiMaggio's grandfather when they were boys. The people of the village felt a personal kinship with him.

Select the best detail to show the sight of Little Joe's trout makes Buster Bear hungry.Now it just happened that early as he was, someone was before Buster Bear. When he came in sight of the little pool, who should he see but another fisherman there, who had already caught a fine fat trout. Who was it? Why, Little Joe Otter to be sure. He was just climbing up the bank with the fat trout in his mouth. Buster Bear's own mouth watered as he saw it. Little Joe sat down on the bank and prepared to enjoy his breakfast.From Thornton W. Burgess, The Adventures of Buster Bear. C

The following text is adapted from Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises. The narrator is on a fishing trip at a waterfall. I did not feel the first trout strike. When I started to pull up I felt that I had one and brought him, fighting and bending the rod almost double, out of the boiling water at the foot of the falls, and swung him up and onto the dam. He was a good trout, and I banged his head against the timber so that he quivered out straight, and then slipped him into my bag. While I had him on, several trout had jumped at the falls. As soon as I baited up and dropped in again I hooked another and brought him in the same way. In a little while I had six. They were all about the same size. I laid them out, side by side, all their heads pointing the same way, and looked at them. They were beautifully colored and firm and hard from the cold water.Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole? It offers an ironic depiction of the narrator’s lack of fishing skill.eliminateIt produces an impression of the passage of time.eliminateIt provides context for why the narrator is fishing.eliminateIt clarifies the narrator’s expectations.