Question

What is the theme of the underlined passage from Sec. 58 of Mark Twain's "The Californian's Tale," and is it stated or implied?
A. implied- girls don't matter enough to count
B. stated- over 19 years only three men are true and loyal
C. implied- good and true friends last a lifetime, and they help lift our burdens

Answer 1

58- "Never has been sane an hour since. But he only gets bad when that time of year comes round. Then we begin to drop in here, three days before she's due, to encourage him up, and ask if he's heard from her, and Saturday we all come and fix up the house with flowers, and get everything ready for a dance. We've done it every year for nineteen years. The first Saturday there was twenty-seven of us, without counting the girls; there's only three of us now, and the girls are gone. We drug him to sleep, or he would go wild; then he's all right for another year—thinks she's with him till the last three or four days come round; then he begins to look for her, and gets out his poor old letter, and we come and ask him to read it to us. Lord, she was a darling!"

Answer 2

C I believe

Answer 3

right

Answer 4

What is the theme of the underlined passage from Sec. 2 of Mark Twain's "The Californian's Tale," and is it stated or implied?
A. implied- humiliation and pride can lead to regrets and running away from reality
B. stated- miners who lost their wealth were too excited and hopeful to give up
C. implied- men who build their own cabins never leave them

Answer 5

2- Now and then, half an hour apart, one came across solitary log cabins of the earliest mining days, built by the first gold-miners, he predecessors of the cottage-builders. In some few cases these cabins were still occupied; and when this was so, you could depend upon it that the occupant was the very pioneer who had built the cabin; and you could depend on another thing, too—that he was there because he had once had his opportunity to go home to the States rich, and had not done it; had rather lost his wealth, and had then in his humiliation resolved to sever all communication with his home relatives and friends, and be to them thenceforth as one dead. Round about California in that day were scattered a host of these living dead men—pride-smitten poor fellows, grizzled3 and old at forty, whose secret thoughts were made all of regrets and longings—regrets for their wasted lives, and longings to be out of the struggle and done with it all.

Answer 6

A

Answer 7

What is the theme of the underlined passage from Sec. 21 of Saki's "The Open Window," and is it stated or implied?
A. stated- strangers and acquaintances do not care about intricate details about someone's health
B. stated- Framton was a very sick man
C. implied- only one's family truly loves every part of you and will listen to whining

Answer 8

21- "The doctors agree in ordering me complete rest, an absence of mental excitement, and avoidance of anything in the nature of violent physical exercise," announced Framton, who laboured under the tolerably widespread delusion that total strangers and chance acquaintances are hungry for the least detail of one's ailments and infirmities, their cause and cure. "On the matter of diet they are not so much in agreement," he continued.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

@haleyelizabeth2017

Answer 11

A