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CAHSEE ELA 7.1 Characteristics. Which of the following best expresses one of the themes in the previous passage?
CAHSEE ELA Characteristics: Drill 7, Problem 2. Which of the following best describes the narrator's feelings towards her grandparents?
CAHSEE ELA 7.3 Characteristics. Which of the following does not describe an effect of the use of first-person narration in this passage?
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CAHSEE ELA 7.5 Characteristics. Why is the narrator so upset?
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- 00:02
Here's your shmoop du jour...
- 00:10
If you don't quite have this passage branded into your brain yet, hit pause and take another gander...
- 00:15
Why is the narrator so upset?
- 00:18
And here are the potential answers:
- 00:23
Ok, what is this question asking?
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- 00:25
Basically, it wants to know if we're paying attention.
- 00:30
Is it because her friends are abandoning her to hang out at an event she's not invited
- 00:35
Yeah, her friends will be out having fun without her... but she doesn't blame it on them.
- 00:40
She blames it on this mysterious "he" she keeps talking about.
- 00:44
Is she upset because she decides to stay home to study?
- 00:47
Well, if it was her decision, we're not sure what cause she'd have to be upset.
- 00:52
No, not that one either. Is it because she's locked in a dungeon
- 00:56
and there is no one to rescue her?
- 00:58
My my... what an imagination we have.
- 01:00
No... she's upset because she's missing an important event... and we can reasonably
- 01:04
assume it's her dad who's throwing down the hammer.
- 01:08
Our answer is B.
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