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Use paragraph 2 from “The Interlopers” to answer the question.
The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent and well stocked with game; the narrow strip of precipitous woodland that lay on its outskirt was not remarkable for the game it harboured or the shooting it afforded, but it was the most jealously guarded of all its owner’s territorial possessions. A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring family of petty landowners; the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the Courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations. The neighbour feud had grown into a personal one since Ulrich had come to be head of his family; if there was a man in the world whom he detested and wished ill to it was Georg Znaeym, the inheritor of the quarrel and the tireless game-snatcher and raider of the disputed border-forest.
Which phrase is a signal that the story has moved backward in time?
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The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent
The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent
poaching affrays and similar scandals
poaching affrays and similar scandals
in the days of his grandfather
in the days of his grandfather
if there was a man in the world whom he detested
if there was a man in the world whom he detested
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The correct phrase that signals the story has moved backward in time is "in the days of his grandfather."
This phrase indicates a reference to a period that predates the current events of the story, illustrating the historical context of the feud between the two families. It helps establish that the conflict has deep roots, going back to earlier generations, rather than being a recent development.
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