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How does the narrator of “Homesick” reveal her appreciation of the ocean?

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She describes it as a circle of rippling water.
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She states that she wants to sit and look at it.
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She explains what the International Date Line is.
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She indicates that she spent twenty-eight days on it.
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"Well, let's play shuffleboard," she said.
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The universe was one-hundred-percent perfect just as it was.
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And then Andrea began to dance.
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Scarcely breathing, I sat beside a smokestack and watched.
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Edward kept busy in programs planned for children his age and the grown-ups made friends and talked their usual boring grown-up talk.

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It is easy to predict which adults will become friends.
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It is difficult to have an interesting conversation with adults.
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Adults do not enjoy being on a ship as much as children do.
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Adults are able to make friends more easily than children are.
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Which excerpt from "Homesick” would stay the same if the story were narrated with a third-person point of view?

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I wasn't reciting for anyone's benefit but my own.
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As soon as we were on the dock, we were jostled from line to line.
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"I'm kind of funny in the head," I said.
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"Me too," Andrea agreed.
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How does walking up to the top deck of the ship influence the narrator's viewpoint in "Homesick"?

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It causes her to think she is going nowhere.
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It makes her feel that she is "in-between" everything.
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It causes her to question the decision to leave China.
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It makes her feel that she has seen enough of the ocean.
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Read the excerpt from ”Homesick” by Jean Fritz.I had never seen so many stars. When I looked for a spot where I might stick an extra star if I had one, I couldn't find any space at all. No matter how small, an extra star would be out of place, I decided. The universe was one-hundred-percent perfect just as it was.With these sentences, the narrator is

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expressing doubt in herself.
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providing her view of the world.
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displaying learned knowledge.
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communicating a desire for change.
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Of course it wasn't the same as one of the forty-eight states; still, when we stepped off the President Taft in Honolulu (where we were to stay a couple of days before going on to San Francisco), we wondered if we could truthfully say we were stepping on American soil. I said no.

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expressing confusion about the relationship between Honolulu and America.
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providing useful background information about Honolulu and San Francisco.
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revealing that she and other passengers may have different points of view about America.
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asserting that her opinion about America is correct and should be respected by the other passengers.
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Which sentence from "Homesick” is narrated with a first-person point of view?

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She thought the ocean was one big waste.
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We found that mostly they fit into definite types.
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"You notice there's no one our age," Andrea said.
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Andrea sighed. "I was hoping for some boys."

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