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Question 1
The following excerpt is an example of which theme word or phrase?
"It was her appalling inadequacy; her cowardice; her mean water-sprinkled blood that depressed her."
Question 2
The following excerpt is an example of which theme word or phrase?
For a party makes things either much more real, or much less real, she thought, she saw in a flash to the bottom of Robert Haydon's heart; she saw through everything. She saw the truth. THIS was true, this drawing-room, this self, and the other false.
Question 3
The following excerpt is an example of which theme word or phrase?
"But my dear, it's perfectly charming!" Rose Shaw said, looking her up and down with that little satirical pucker of the lips which she expected—Rose herself being dressed in the height of fashion, precisely like everybody else, always.
Question 4
The following excerpt is an example of which theme word or phrase?
"it made her furious to be treated like a house agent or messenger boy, to be made use of. Not to have value, that was it, she thought, trying to grasp something hard, something real."
Question 5
As The following excerpt is an example of which theme word or phrase?
"now and then, thought Mabel Waring, left alone on the blue sofa, punching the cushion in order to look occupied, for she would not join Charles Burt and Rose Shaw, chattering like magpies and possible laughing at her by the fireplace."
Question 6
The following excerpt is an example of which theme word or phrase?
"She had always been a fretful, weak, unsatisfactory mother, a wobbly wife, lolling about in a kind of twilight existence with nothing very clear or very bold, or more one thing than another, "
Question 7
The following excerpt is an example of which theme word or phrase?
"But it was not her fault altogether, after all. It was being one of a family of ten; never having money enough, always skimping and paring; and her mother carrying great cans, and he linoleum worn on the stair edges, and one sordid little domestic tragedy after another—nothing catastrophic, the sheep farm failing, but not utterly; her brother marrying beneath her, but not much."
Question 8
The following excerpt is an example of which theme word or phrase?
"And it was still odder, this thing, this Mabel Waring, was separate, quite disconnected."