Question: CHAPTER IX 

LETTIE COMES OF AGE 

Lettie was twenty-one on the day after Christmas. She woke me in the morning with cries of dismay. There was a great fall of snow, multiplying the cold morning light, startling the slow-footed twilight. The lake was black like the open eyes of a corpse; the woods were black like the beard on the face of a corpse. A rabbit bobbed out, and floundered in much consternation; little birds settled into the depth, and rose in a dusty whirr, much terrified at the universal treachery of the earth. The snow was eighteen inches deep, and drifted in places. 

"They will never come!" lamented Lettie, for it was the day of her party. 

"At any rate—Leslie will," said I. 

"One!" she exclaimed. 

"That one is all, isn't it?" said I. "And for sure George will come, though I've not seen him this fortnight. He's not been in one night, they say, for a fortnight." 

"Why not?" 

"I cannot say." 

Lettie went away to ask Rebecca for the fiftieth time if she thought they would come. At any rate the extra woman-help came. 

It was not more than ten o'clock when Leslie arrived, ruddy, with shining eyes, laughing like a boy. There was much stamping in the porch, and knocking of leggings with his stick, and crying of Lettie from the kitchen to know who had come, and loud, cheery answers from the porch bidding her come and see. She came, and greeted him with effusion. 

"Ha, my little woman!" he said kissing her. "I declare you are a woman. Look at yourself in the glass now——" She did so—"What do you see?" he asked laughing.  1. Had Lettie asked Rebecca something a lot?
2. What time was this that she asked?
3. What was the time when Leslie showed up?
4. What was her complexion like?
5. How were her eyes?
6. What was she laughing like?
7. Who was called from the kitchen?
8. How did Leslie greet them?
9. Was Leslie told to look in the mirror?
10. How old was Lettie?
11. On what day was her birthday?
12. What color was the lake called?
13. How else was it described?
14. What animal floundered?
15. Where did the birds settle?
16. The woods were compared to what on a face?
17. On the face of what?
18. Who hadn't been seen in two weeks?
19. What did the birds rise in?
20. What kind? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Yes
2. Fiftieth
3. Not more than ten o'clock
4. Ruddy
5. Shining
6. A boy
7. Lettie
8. With effusion.
9. Yes
10. Twenty-one
11. Day after Christmas
12. Black
13. Like the open eyes of a corpse
14. A rabbit
15. Into the depth
16. A beard
17. A corpse.
18. George
19. A whirr
20. Dusty


Question: When I was a little kid, a father was like the light in the fridge. Every house had one, but no one really knew what either of them did when the door was shut. My dad left the house every morning and always seemed glad to see every one again at night. He opened the jar of pickles when no one else at home could. He was the only one in the house who wasn't afraid to go into the basement by himself. Whenever it rained, he got into the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription filled. He set mousetraps. He cut back the roses so the thorns wouldn't hurt you when you came to the front door. He oiled my roller skates, and they went faster. When I got my bike, he ran alongside me for at least a thousand miles until I _ . He signed all my report and cards. He took a lot of pictures, but was never in them. He tightened up Mother's sagging clothesline every week or so. I was afraid of everyone else's father, but not my own. Whenever I played house , the mother doll had a lot to do. I never knew what to do with the daddy doll, so I had him say, "I'm going off to work now," and threw him under the bed. When I was nine years old, my father didn't get up one morning and go to work, he went to the hospital and died the next day. There were a lot of people in the house who brought all kinds of good food and cakes. We had never had so much company before. He never did anything; I didn't know his leaving would hurt so much. 1. Where was her father every day?
2. Did she know what he did there?
3. What does she compare him to?
4. What happened with the dad doll?
5. What happened to her father?
6. When?
7. Was she afraid of him?
8. Who was she afraid of?
9. What would he do when others were sick?
10. What did she realize when he died? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. work
2. no
3. the light in the fridge
4. she threw him under the bed
5. he died
6. When she was nine
7. no
8. everyone else's father
9. got the prescription filled
10. his leaving hurt


Question: CHAPTER 4 

"What a pity it is, Elinor," said Marianne, "that Edward should have no taste for drawing." 

"No taste for drawing!" replied Elinor, "why should you think so? He does not draw himself, indeed, but he has great pleasure in seeing the performances of other people, and I assure you he is by no means deficient in natural taste, though he has not had opportunities of improving it. Had he ever been in the way of learning, I think he would have drawn very well. He distrusts his own judgment in such matters so much, that he is always unwilling to give his opinion on any picture; but he has an innate propriety and simplicity of taste, which in general direct him perfectly right." 

Marianne was afraid of offending, and said no more on the subject; but the kind of approbation which Elinor described as excited in him by the drawings of other people, was very far from that rapturous delight, which, in her opinion, could alone be called taste. Yet, though smiling within herself at the mistake, she honoured her sister for that blind partiality to Edward which produced it. 

"I hope, Marianne," continued Elinor, "you do not consider him as deficient in general taste. Indeed, I think I may say that you cannot, for your behaviour to him is perfectly cordial, and if THAT were your opinion, I am sure you could never be civil to him." 

Marianne hardly knew what to say. She would not wound the feelings of her sister on any account, and yet to say what she did not believe was impossible. At length she replied:  1. Does Elinor agree with Marianne?
2. Who were they speaking about?
3. What does Marianne think of Edward?
4. were Marianne and Elinor related?
5. how?
6. Does Edward draw?
7. Has he had many oppurtunities to learn to draw?
8. if he had, what does Elinor believe?
9. Does he give his opinion on many deawings?
10. why not?
11. What does Elinor say he is not deficient in?
12. Does Marianne agree?
13. how does she feel about the matter of his taste?
14. What was Marianne afraid to do?
15. who?
16. instead she chose to honour her for what?
17. who produced that in her?
18. How does Marianne act toward Edward?
19. Was Marianne going to agree with Elinor even though she did not believe it?
20. How did she describe saying what she did not believe? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. No
2. Edward
3. that Edward has no taste for drawing.
4. Yes
5. Sisters
6. No
7. No
8. He would have drawn very well.
9. No
10. He distrusts his own judgment.
11. Natural taste
12. No
13. That he was far from having any.
14. Offending
15. Elinor
16. Her blind partiality.
17. Edward
18. Cordial.
19. She didn't know what to say.
20. Impossible.