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QuizMultiple Choice

Analyzing Layers of Meaning in "Seventeen Syllables"

Question 16 • HACHMAN FL-1001380-English Honors 3 B (GPA) 26/27

Read the excerpt of a conversation between Sadako and her father, Mr. Endo, from "Morning Rain.”"Sa, I think I’ll visit with the Iwanagas this afternoon. I didn’t see them the last time. Then there’s a movie I want to see at the Fuji-kwan. Don’t expect me for supper. I’ll eat something down in Nihon-machi.”"Okay.” Sadako was rather relieved. Supper times were always uneasy when her father was visiting from San Francisco, where he worked as a gardener for a well-to-do family (it was the same job he had held before the war). She tried her best to keep a pleasant digestible conversation going, but she always ended up tensely, delivering an overly ebullient monologue.

Answer
A
casual
B
formal
C
anxious
D
unhappy

Explanation

Sadako feels tense during supper with her father and works hard to keep the conversation going, but it becomes an overly enthusiastic monologue. These details show that she feels anxious, rather than casual, formal, or simply unhappy.

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