Novel: From A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith — Unit test
Question 18 • 2178-O English 3B Online
Which excerpt from Zora Neale Hurston’s “John Redding Goes to Sea” describes the awkward relationship John has with the others in the village?
Answer
A
Perhaps ten-year-old John was puzzling to the simple folk there in the Florida woods for he was an imaginative child and fond of day-dreams.
B
Often he was a knight bestride a fiery charger prancing down the white shell road that led to distant lands.
C
One day his father came upon him scolding the weeds for stopping his sea-going vessels.
D
"Alf, you ain't gone crazy, is you? John kain't help wantin' tuh stray off, cause he's got a spell. on 'im; but you oughter be shamed to be encouragin' him . . ."