Question

Read this passage from Edward Abbey, "The Damnation of a Canyon"

Up most of the side canyons, before damnation, there were springs, sometimes flowing streams, waterfalls and plunge pools the kind of marvels you can now find only in such small-scale remnants of Glen Canyon as the Escalante area. In the rich flora of these laterals the larger mammals mule deer, coyote, bobcat, ring-tailed cat, gray fox, kit fox, skunk, badger and others found a home. When the river was dammed almost all of these things were lost. Crowded out or drowned and buried under mud.

Which phrase has the most negative connotation?

A. Drowned and buried
B. Rich flora
C. Plunge pools
D. Kind of marvels

MOD NOTE: Please do NOT post a direct answer. Low effort, plagiarized answers will be removed.

Answer 1

Also by reading the text you could find out

Answer 2

This is the first sentence which had two of the answer choices:

"Up most of the side canyons, before damnation, there were springs, sometimes flowing streams, waterfalls and plunge pools the kind of marvels you can now find only in such small-scale remnants of Glen Canyon as the Escalante area."

You can tell this is not negative by the description

Answer 3

Next sentence: " In the rich flora of these laterals the larger mammals mule deer, coyote, bobcat, ring-tailed cat, gray fox, kit fox, skunk, badger and others found a home."

This is also not negative

Answer 4

The last two sentences prove that it the negative one

Answer 5

First it says "When the river was dammed almost all of these things were lost"

Then "Crowded out or drowned and buried under mud"

You can now figure that this is the negative option