Read the excerpt from Other Words for Home. Today the air is so soupy that it feels like I am living inside someone else’s mouth. I wake up at the sound of the first adhan, the muezzin’s voice echoing through my room. But I do not get up to pray. Instead I roll over and press my face into my pillow and pray for cool air and sleep. Which phrase best describes the setting of this excerpt?
Answer
A
a humid outdoor public square
B
a bedroom on a muggy summer day
C
a lively mosque in the morning
D
a warm bed during a cool winter
Explanation
The narrator wakes in a room, hears the first adhan, and presses her face into her pillow instead of getting up. She describes the air as “soupy” and wishes for cool air, showing that the room is hot and humid. So the setting is a bedroom on a muggy summer day.
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