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- A
- 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
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- 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
- Correct.
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- wrong answer explanation
- 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
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- 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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- e
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- C
- Correct.
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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
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- 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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- e
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- D
- Correct.
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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
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- 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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- b
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- E
- Correct.
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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
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- 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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- a
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- F
- Correct.
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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
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- 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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- b
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- G
- Correct.
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- wrong answer explanation
- G
- (B) It is implied that she had had "adventures" before becoming a school
- teacher.
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