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Question 3 • Literature and Composition I

Read the excerpt from Loom and Spindle . My mother had never complained of her poverty in our hearing, and I had accepted the conditions of my life with a child's trust, knowing nothing of the relative difference between poverty and riches. And so I went to the sewing-school, like any other little girl who was taking lessons in sewing and not as a "charity child;" until a certain day when something was said by one of the teachers, about me, as a "poor little girl,"—a thoughtless remark, no doubt, such as may be said to-day in "charity schools." When I went home I told my mother that the teacher said I was poor, and she replied in her sententious manner, "You need not go there again." Which statement best reflects the narrator’s perspective in the excerpt?

Answer
A
The narrator appreciates her mother’s pride.
B
The narrator is proud of her hard work in school.
C
The narrator resents her mother’s strict rules.
D
The narrator is embarrassed by her family’s behavior.
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