Question

Homework help asap please:
Sonny's blues, I stand Here Ironing, Two Kinds, Elizabeth Bishop, "TheFish," and "The Monkey Garden."

Answer 1

1. In"Sonny's Blues," Sonny is:

the antagonist.

the narrator.

the protagonist.

the main character.

the narrator's brother
my answer is E.

2.
In "I Stand Here Ironing," Emily:

never gets past her reticence.

is a woman who reflects the traits of her time period.

was very healthy as a child.

harbors bitter resentment toward her mother.

was very much like her younger sister.
My answer is D.

3.
In Elizabeth Bishop's"The Fish," the speaker:

has to fight hard to reel the fish in.

is repulsed by the fish's face.

can't wait to eat the fish.

feels that the boat is filled with victory.

provides little description of the fish.
My answer is D.

4.
In “The Monkey Garden,” an excerpt from Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street, the garden:
A. remains a special and beloved place in the speaker’s memory
B. houses a monkey whose screaming keeps the narrator up at night
C. is the place where the narrator is told that she is too old to enjoy children’s games any more
D. is a well-tended and beautiful retreat from the noisy, brick-and-concrete neighborhood
E. is a place where mothers can supervise their children and children can get some fresh air

My answer is A.

5.
All of the following statements concerning combined sentences are true except:

they're often connected with a coordinating conjunction.

they're often two complete clauses joined by a comma.

they're often connected with a semicolon.

they include at least two complete or independent clauses.

they allow you to vary sentence structure in your writing.

My answer is C.

6.
The concepts of assimilation and cultural preservation:

often refer to immigrant groups.

often refer to minority groups.

carry tension between them.

are addressed in multicultural literature.

All of the above
My answer is E.

Answer 2

Can someone please check my answers? I tried to answer these confusing questions meself prior to posting the question.

Answer 3

@me10000

Answer 4

@me1000, what do youthink?

Answer 5

i have never read this story before sorry

Answer 6

any of them?

Answer 7

@perl