I just have 3 questions I need help on! Here they are!
22. Read the following lines from “Africa.” Africa my Africa Africa of proud warriors in ancestral savannahs Africa of whom my grandmother sings On the banks of the distant river I have never known you But your blood flows in my veins Which of these conclusions about the speaker is best supported by the ideas in these lines?
A. The speaker is proud that his grandfather was an African warrior.
B. The speaker feels protective of Africa because that is where his family comes from.***
C. The speaker identifies with his African heritage even though he has never been there.
D. The speaker would like to visit Africa because he has heard his grandmother singing about it.
24. Read the following paragraph from “The Balek Scales”
“My grandfather walked the two hours home through the forest, got a beating when at home, said nothing, not a single word, when he was asked about the coffee, spent the whole evening doing sums on the piece of paper on which he had written down everything he had sold to Frau Balek, and when midnight struck, and the cannon could be heard from the chateau, and the whole village rang with shouting and laughter and the noise of rattles, when the family kissed and embraced all round, he said into the New Year silence. “The Baleks owe me eighteen marks and thirty two pfennigs.” And again he thought of all the children there were in the village, of his brother Fritz who had gathered so many mushrooms for the Baleks, and herbs and flowers, and this time he did not cry but told his parents and brothers and sisters of his discovery.
Which of these words is most closely related to the theme in this paragraph.
A. Despondency. B. Determination. C. Resentment. D. Stubbornnes.*** 27. Each of the following sentences from “The Youngest Doll” contains an example of magical realism except
A. “With her head nestled among the black rocks’ reverberations, she could hear the slamming of salty foam on the beach rolled up with the sound of wabes, and she suddenly thought that her hair had poured out to sea at last.”***
B. “The doctor who examined her assured her it was nothing, that she had probably been bitten by an angry river prawn.
C. “She had been very beautiful, but the prawn hidden under the long, gauzy folds of her skirt stripped her of all vanity.”
D. “Then the doll lifted her eyelids, and out of the empty socket of her eyes can the frenzied antennae of all those prawns.”