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Underline the sentence below that shows that Harriet doesn’t believe her children are musically talented.
Read these sentences from the passage.
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“All the same I shouldn’t like to be exhibiting my children about like freaks.”
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“Poor Nelson! there’s not much danger of your ever being tempted. It’s extremely unlikely that poor Billy or Elsie will ever startle the world. Really, do you know when I heard those Massey children and thought of all they have done, of all they may do, I envied them myself? To youth everything is possible—when anything at all is possible.”
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Harriet sighed and Mackenzie fancied he detected a note of disappointment in her voice. He had suspected before that Harriet was disappointed in her children. They suited him well enough, but Harriet was different.
“Poor dears! there are so many demands on their time and strength that I sometimes feel like fleeing to the North Pole with them.” (paragraph 15) How does this exclamation by Kate Massey serve to develop her character in the passage? A. by showing that Kate regrets introducing her children to music at a young age B. by revealing Kate’s insecurities about her children’s talent C. by making Kate’s expression of concern for her children seem insincere D. by emphasizing similarities between Kate and Harriet
2 Read these sentences from the passage. “...her friends could not have been more surprised than when she married Nelson Mackenzie. They had slated her for a very different career.” (paragraph 9) What is the meaning of slated as used in the passage? A. recommended B. rejected C. trained D. imagined
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