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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?
Which of the following BEST summarizes the main idea of the passage?
a. The narrator is describing life in a small town in Nebraska.
b. The narrator is commenting on how the young women differ in Black Hawk.
c. The narrator is summarizing how immigrant farmers came to settle in Nebraska.
d. The narrator is commenting on the lack of eligible girls in the town of Black Hawk.
What is one reason that the narrator admires the country girls?
a. They are much better dancers than the girls who live in town.
b. They are willing to make sacrifices to help their families prosper.
c. They are the best students in the school because they study so hard.
d. They are very skilled athletes who help to win many school competitions.
How does the setting of Black Hawk, a town in Nebraska, help to shape the passage from My Antonia?
a. It allows the reader to see the differences between farm and city life.
b. The story begins to focus on the immigrant farmers and their families.
c. It shows how people settled and made lives for themselves in Nebraska.
d. The narrator can discuss the differences between the town girls and the country
girls.
Read the following sentence from My Antonia.
"All alike had come to Nebraska with little capital and no knowledge of the soil they must subdue."
What is the narrator implying by this sentence?
a. The settlers came to Nebraska with little money or knowledge of farming.
b. Farmers in the county were struggling to make crops grow in the hard soil.
c. Having little money, the settlers came to farm because that was all they knew.
d. Everyone who came to Nebraska came to make money and to build big farms.
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