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Multiple Choice
What is the tone in the following excerpt from "The Gift of the Magi"?
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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ironic and witty
ironic and witty
joyous and poetic
joyous and poetic
pessimistic and dejected
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pessimistic and dejected
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Multiple Choice
Which meaning of the vocabulary word patent is used in the following excerpt from "The Gift of the Magi"?
“You’ve cut off your hair?” asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labor.
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obvious
obvious
bold
bold
original
original
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Multiple Choice
Which meaning of the vocabulary word patent is used in the following excerpt from "The Gift of the Magi"?
“You’ve cut off your hair?” asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labor.
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obvious
obvious
bold
bold
original
original
obvious
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Multiple Choice
Which of the following personal pronouns completes the sentence correctly?
One of my brothers just received ____ diploma.
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his
his
him
him
their
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Multiple Choice
Which of the following personal pronouns completes the sentence correctly?
One of my brothers just received ____ diploma.
(1 point)
Responses
his
his
him
him
their
his