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There was something biting and forbidding in the character of Kate
Swift. Everyone felt it. In the schoolroom she was silent, cold, and
stern, and yet in an odd way very close to her pupils. Once in a long
while something seemed to have come over her and she was happy. All of
the children in the schoolroom felt the effect of her happiness. For a
time they did not work but sat back in their chairs and looked at her.
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1. Kate Swift is
A. a student
B. a teacher
C. the principal
D. the mother of a student
E. a spinster
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B
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B
(B) She is a teacher.
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B
With hands clasped behind her back the school teacher walked up and
down in the schoolroom and talked very rapidly. It did not seem to matter
what subject came into her mind. Once she talked to the children of
Charles Lamb and made up strange, intimate little stories concerning the
life of the dead writer. The stories were told with the air of one who
had lived in a house with Charles Lamb and knew all the secrets of his
private life.
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1. The teacher
A. once was a house guest of Charles Lamb
B. had been Charles Lamb's housekeeper
C. had been married to Charles Lamb
D. was Charles Lamb's sister
E. never met Charles Lamb
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C
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C
(E) The teacher had never met Charles Lamb.
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C
On another occasion the teacher talked to the children of Benvenuto
Cellini. That time they laughed. What a bragging, blustering, brave,
lovable fellow she made of the old artist! Concerning him also she
invented anecdotes. There was one of a German music teacher who had a
room above Cellini's lodgings in the city of Milan that made the
boys guffaw.
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1. Lamb and Cellini
A. were the subjects of true anecdotal stories
B. at one time lived in town, and were well known to the children's
parents
C. were friends of the teacher
D. were characters the teacher made up
E. were the subjects of stories the teacher made up
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D
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D
(E) These two men became the subjects of stories which the teacher made up.
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D
On the winter night when she walked through the deserted snow-covered
streets, a crisis had come into the life of the school teacher. Although
no one in Winesburg would have suspected it, her life had been very
adventurous. It was still adventurous. Day by day as she walked in the
schoolroom or walked in the streets, grief, hope, and desire fought within her.
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1. The narrator is suggesting
A. the teacher is a daydreamer
B. the teacher is not happy with her life
C. the teacher wants to move to a place where it does not snow
D. the teacher is a daredevil
E. the teacher is new in town, a stranger
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E
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E
(B) She is unhappy with her life.
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E
Behind a cold exterior the most extraordinary events transpired in
her mind. The people of the town thought of her as a confirmed old maid
and because she spoke sharply and went her own way thought her lacking in
all the human feeling that did so much to make and mar their own lives.
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1. The townspeople considered her a confirmed old maid because
A. she was stern and quiet
B. she was the schoolteacher
C. she was unmarried and over 21
D. she hated children
E. she walked the streets alone at night
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F
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F
(A) They regarded her as a confirmed old maid because she was stern and quiet.
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F
In reality she was the most eagerly passionate soul among them, and
more than once, in the five years since she had come back from her travels
to settle in Winesburg and become a school teacher, had been compelled to
go out of the house and walk half through the night fighting out some
battles raging within.
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1. The narrator implies that
A. all her "adventures" were imaginary
B. she had "adventures" before she became a school teacher
C. she is dull and uninteresting to men
D. she is afraid of men
E. she is devoted to teaching and has no time for a social life
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G
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G
(B) It is implied that she had had "adventures" before becoming a school
teacher.
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