Question
11. Which sentence from Doris Lessingʼs “A Sunrise on the Veld” best explains the boyʼs decision concerning
the buck?
(1 point)
“If I had not come it would have died like this: so why should I interfere?”
“It came into his mind that he should shoot it and end its pain; and he raised the gun.”
“There were small twitches from the mass that still looked vaguely like the shape of a small animal.”
“Perhaps some Africans had thrown stones at it, as they do, trying to kill it for meat, and had broken its
leg.”
the buck?
(1 point)
“If I had not come it would have died like this: so why should I interfere?”
“It came into his mind that he should shoot it and end its pain; and he raised the gun.”
“There were small twitches from the mass that still looked vaguely like the shape of a small animal.”
“Perhaps some Africans had thrown stones at it, as they do, trying to kill it for meat, and had broken its
leg.”
Answers
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“It came into his mind that he should shoot it and end its pain; and he raised the gun.”