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2) Choose the best answer.

What is the point of view of the story?

first person

third person omniscient

third person limited

first person limited

3) Choose True or False.
The story would not be much different if told from the point of view of the bachelor.


False

True

4) Choose True or False.
The behavior of the aunt and the children is pretty typical.


False

True

5) Choose the best answer.

What does the aunt think of the bachelor on first impression?

that he is crass

that he is bored

that he is an unsympathetic man

that he is a softhearted man

6) Choose the best answer.

What does the man think of the aunt?

that she can't pacify the children

that she doesn't care about the kids

that she has hurt the children

that she is naturally wonderful with the kids

7) Choose True or False.
The aunt's story is didactic, or designed to teach a lesson.


False

True

8) Choose True or False.
How does the bachelor answer the children's questions?


impatiently

creatively

angrily

impassively

9) Choose the best answer.

What oxymoron does the bachelor use?

"silent conversation"

"awfully pretty"

"horribly good"

"legalized stealing"

10) Choose True or False.
The aunt's story is more effective than the bachelor's.


True

False

11) Choose the best answer.

This story is an example of a(n) ____.

allegory

proposal

narrative poem

satire

12) Choose the best answer.

"The Storyteller" is a an example of a __________ story.

frame

flashback

in medias res

expository

Answer 1

2) third person omniscient

3) False

4) True

5) that he is an unsympathetic man

6) that she is naturally wonderful with the kids

7) True

8) creatively

9) "awfully pretty"

10) False

11) satire

12) frame