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Name: ______________________
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Which sentence from My Antonia BEST describes how the narrator felt about town girls?
a. "Those girls had grown up in the first bitter-hard times, and had got little schooling themselves."
b. "When one danced with them their bodies never moved inside their clothes; their muscles seemed to ask but one thing—not to be disturbed."
c. "But no matter in what straits the Pennsylvanian or Virginian found himself, he would not let his daughters go out into service."
d. "Determined to help in the struggle to clear the homestead from debt, they had no alternative but to go into service."
Read the following sentence from My Antonia.
"Physically they were almost a race apart, and out-of-door work had given them a vigor which, when they got over their first shyness on coming to town, developed into a positive carriage and freedom of movement, and made them conspicuous among Black Hawk women."
Which of the following BEST suggests the meaning of the word carriage as used in this sentence at the beginning of the fifth paragraph?
a. friendliness b. attitude
c. character d. posture
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