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lesson pretestMultiple Choice

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Question 3 • English 3

Read the excerpt from "Shout: A Poetry Memoir.” I ate red apples heavy-salted on the tomb the sleeping Victorian corpses below fed me secrets sentinel owls peered from a grove of old pines, all of us hoping, waiting on signs of the change that was promised Which detail best contributes to the optimistic mood in this excerpt?

Answer
A
“the sleeping Victorian corpses / below fed me secrets”
B
“all of us hoping, waiting on signs / of the change”
C
“I ate red apples / heavy-salted on the tomb"
D
“sentinel owls peered / from a grove of old pines”
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