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| A child's Christmas in Wales: Dylan Thomas's story is primarily a: (a) portrait of traditional Welsh Christmas celebrations (b) poetic Christmas fantasy (c) collection of the authors Christmas memories (d) description of the author's family. |
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| collection of the authors Christmas memories |
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| A child's Christmas in Wales:Which of teh following lines from the selection contains objective autobiographical information? (a) It was on the afternoon of the day of Christmas Eve, and I was in Mrs. Prother's garden, waiting for cats, with her son Jim. (b) Our snow was not only shaken from whit-was buckets down the sky, it came shawling out of the ground and swam and drifted out of the arms and hands and bodies of the trees..." (b) With sprinkling eyes and windcherried noses, on spread, frozen feet they crunched up to the doors and mittened on them nanfully. (d) And then, at tea the recovered Uncles would be jolly;' and the ice cake loomed in the center of the table like marble grave. |
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| It was on the afternoon of the day of Christmas Eve, and I was in Mrs. Prother's garden, waiting for cats, with her son Jim. |
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| A child's Christmas in Wales:Which of the following details from the selection illustrates the difference between autobiography and biography? (a) the story of Mrs. Prother's fire (b) the distinction between Useful Presents and Uselss Presents (c) the names of the narrator's childhood friends (d) the identification of various aunts and uncles. |
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| the distinction between Useful Presents and Uselss Presents |
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| A child's Christmas in Wales:Which of the following is an example of a subjective detail? (a) ...smoke, indeed, was pouring out of the dining room, and the gong was bombilating..." (b) ..." there were mustached and rasping vests that made you wonder why the aunts had any skin left at all..." (c) "For dinner we had turkey and blazing pudding, and after dinner the Uncles sat in front of the fire..." (d) " ... I could see the lights in the windows of all the other houses on our hill and hear the music rising from them..." |
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| ..." there were mustached and rasping vests that made you wonder why the aunts had any skin left at all..." |
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| A child's Christmas in Wales:Which of the following is an example of an objective detail? (a) "...we rode the daft and happy hills bareback...: (b) "And they rang their tidings over the bandaged town, over the frozen foam of teh powder and ice-cream hills..." (c) Ghosts whooed like owls in the long nights...animals lurked in the cubbyhole under the stairs where the gas meter ticked" (d) "And we threw all our snowballs into the smoke...and ran out of the house to the telephone box." |
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| "And we threw all our snowballs into the smoke...and ran out of the house to the telephone box." |
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| A child's Christmas in Wales:What word best describes the narrator's attitude toward his family? (a) amused (b) bewildered (c) affectionate (d) embarrassed |
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| A child's Christmas in Wales:What is the author's purpose in describing the scene with the two boys blowing their dog whistles? (a) It demonstrates the comradery of the boys. (b) It describes the narrator's triumph over a boyhood rival. (c) It provides and adult perspective on a conflict between boys. (d) It shows the competitive nature of the boys' world. |
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| It shows the competitive nature of the boys' world. |
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| A child's Christmas in Wales: (A) "caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors..." (b) ...leaving huge depp footprints on teh hidden pavements" (c) Auntie Hannah laced her tea with rum..." (d) " Mistletoe hung from the gas brackets in all the front parlors..." |
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| "caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors..." |
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A child's Christmas in Wales:
Which of the following phrases best describes the narrator of "A Child's Christmas in Wales"? (a) quiet and observant (b) shrewd and clever (c) shy and affectionate (d) fanciful and imaginative |
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| A child's Christmas in Wales: What conclusion can you draw about Aunti Hannah from the following sentence: "Auntie Hannah, who had got on to the parsnip wine, sang a song about Bleeding Hearts and Death, and then another in which she said her heart was like a Bird's Nest..." (a) Auntie Hannah only drank at Christmas time. (b) Drinking made Auntie Hannah melancholy (c) Alcohol made Auntie Hannah maudlin and sentimental. (d) Whenever she had a glass of wine, Auntie Hannah tended to confuse religion with love. |
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| Alcohol made Auntie Hannah maudlin and sentimental. |
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