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Name: ______________________ ID: A
One result of this family solidarity was that the foreign farmers in our county were the first to become prosperous. After the fathers were out of debt, the daughters married the sons of neighbors,—usually of like nationality,—and the girls who once worked in Black Hawk kitchens are to-day managing big farms and fine families of their own; their children are better off than the children of the town women they used to serve.
I thought the attitude of the town people toward these girls very stupid. If I told my schoolmates that Lena Lingard’s grandfather was a clergyman, and much respected in Norway, they looked at me blankly. What did it matter?
3. Read the following sentence from My Antonia.
"The older girls, who helped to break up the wild sod, learned so much from life, from poverty, from their mothers and grandmothers; they had all, like Ántonia, been early awakened and made observant by coming at a tender age from an old country to a new."
What is the narrator suggesting about the girls in this sentence? Use evidence from the rest of the passage to support your claim.
4. In a brief response, describe the social structure of Black Hawk as the narrator saw it in My Antonia. Did he find this situation acceptable? Be sure to use details from the passage to support your answer.
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