Read the passage from "The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck.
10. The reader can infer from this passage that men in Elisa's time and place (1 point)
Owere much lonelier than women.
Owere less confident than women.
Oworked much harder than women.
O enjoyed more freedom than women.
11. How does Elisa's attitude change after the fixer leaves? (1 point)
She becomes melancholy.
She grows confident.
She turns vengeful.
O She gets enraged.
3 answers
Can we have the passage?
1 "It must be nice," she said. "It must be very nice. I wish women could do such things."
2 "It ain't the right kind of a life for a woman."
3 Her upper lip raised a little, showing her teeth. "How do you know? How can you tell?" she said. "I don't know, ma'am," he protested. "Of course I don't know. Now here's your kettles, done. You
5 don't have to buy no new ones."
6 "How much?"
7
"Oh, fifty cents'll do. I keep my prices down and my work good. That's why I have all them satisfied customers up and down the highway."
9 Elisa brought him a fifty-cent piece from the house and dropped it in his hand. "You might be 10 surprised to have a rival some time. I can sharpen scissors, too. And I can beat the dents out of little pots. 11 I could show you what a woman might do."
15 lips moved silently, forming the words, "Good-bye-good-bye." Then she whispered: "That's a bright
17 Elisa stood in front of her wire fence watching the slow progress of the caravan. Her shoulders were 18 straight, her head thrown back, her eyes half-closed, so that the scene came vaguely into them. Her
15 ma'am," he said. "I'll do like you told me: I'll go back and catch the Salinas road..." The wagon turned 16 and crawled out the entrance road and back the way it had come, along the river.
14 He climbed over the single-tree, steadying himself in the seat, picked up the lines. "Thank you kindly
12 He put his hammer back in the oily box and shoved the little anvil out of sight. "It would be a lonely 13 life for a woman, ma'am, and a scarey life, too, with animals creeping under the wagon all night."
20 direction. There's a glowing there."
2 "It ain't the right kind of a life for a woman."
3 Her upper lip raised a little, showing her teeth. "How do you know? How can you tell?" she said. "I don't know, ma'am," he protested. "Of course I don't know. Now here's your kettles, done. You
5 don't have to buy no new ones."
6 "How much?"
7
"Oh, fifty cents'll do. I keep my prices down and my work good. That's why I have all them satisfied customers up and down the highway."
9 Elisa brought him a fifty-cent piece from the house and dropped it in his hand. "You might be 10 surprised to have a rival some time. I can sharpen scissors, too. And I can beat the dents out of little pots. 11 I could show you what a woman might do."
15 lips moved silently, forming the words, "Good-bye-good-bye." Then she whispered: "That's a bright
17 Elisa stood in front of her wire fence watching the slow progress of the caravan. Her shoulders were 18 straight, her head thrown back, her eyes half-closed, so that the scene came vaguely into them. Her
15 ma'am," he said. "I'll do like you told me: I'll go back and catch the Salinas road..." The wagon turned 16 and crawled out the entrance road and back the way it had come, along the river.
14 He climbed over the single-tree, steadying himself in the seat, picked up the lines. "Thank you kindly
12 He put his hammer back in the oily box and shoved the little anvil out of sight. "It would be a lonely 13 life for a woman, ma'am, and a scarey life, too, with animals creeping under the wagon all night."
20 direction. There's a glowing there."
I believe the first answer is C. That men worked harder than women.