A Response to 9/11 by Jonathan Safran Foer

Question 1

The bold text is ambiguous and has two meanings. Check the two possible meanings for the bold text.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The box is hidden under the jewelry workbench and albums of foreign currencies.; The jewelry workbench and albums of foreign currencies are hidden under stuff in the closet.

Question 2

What assumption might the narrator have that supports this inference? ✔ His mother needs protecting.His mother was lonely.His mother is strong and independent.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

✔ His mother needs protecting.

Question 3

What do the inference and assumption reveal about the narrator?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

He loves his mother.

Question 4

Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.What was a pretty blue vase doing way up there? I couldn’t reach it, obviously, so I moved over the chair with the tuxedo still on it, and then I went to my room to get the Collected Shakespeare set that Grandma bought for me when she found out that I was going to be Yorick, and I brought those over, four tragedies at a time, until I had a stack that was tall enough.How does the narration shape Oskar’s characterization in this excerpt?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

His literary references render him mature for his age.

Question 5

Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.It took me nine hours to make, and I had thought about giving it to Sonny, the homeless person who I sometimes see standing outside the Alliance Française, because he puts me in heavy boots, or maybe to Lindy, the neat old woman who volunteers to give tours at the Museum of Natural History, so I could be something special to her, or even just to someone in a wheelchair. But instead I gave it to Mom. She said it was the best gift she’d ever received. Which word from this excerpt most reveals the tone?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

heavy, because the narrator’s list of ideas is bizarre and a bit outrageous

Question 6

Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.“It’s all electronic these days. Key pads. Thumbprint recognition.” “That’s so awesome.” “I like keys.” I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots. “Well, if people like me are a dying breed, then what’s going to happen to your business?” “We’ll become specialized,” he said, “like a typewriter shop. We’re useful now, but soon we’ll be interesting.” “Maybe you need a new business.” “I like this business.”How does the narration shape Oskar’s characterization in this excerpt?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It reveals his naivete.

Question 7

Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.The average person falls asleep in seven minutes, but I couldn’t sleep, not after hours, and it made my boots lighter to be around his things, and to touch stuff that he had touched, and to make the hangers hang a little straighter, even though I knew it didn’t matter.How does the narration affect Oskar’s credibility in this excerpt?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

His efforts to soothe himself render him earnest and genuine.

Question 8

Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place.... And when something really terrible happened—like a nuclear bomb, or at least a biological weapons attack—an extremely loud siren would go off, telling everyone to get to Central Park to put sandbags around the reservoir.What assumption does the narrator make in this excerpt?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

that many people express their grief through tears

Question 9

Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.His tuxedo was over the chair he used to sit on when he tied his shoes, and I thought, Weird. Why wasn’t it hung up with his suits? Had he come from a fancy party the night before he died? But then why would he have taken off his tuxedo without hanging it up? Maybe it needed to be cleaned? But I didn’t remember a fancy party. I remembered him tucking me in....How does the narration affect the story in this excerpt?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Oskar’s attempts to recall the events build suspense.

Question 10

Read this excerpt from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.“I didn’t do it!” I hollered, but they didn’t even hear me, because they were playing music too loud and cracking up too much. I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but because they were cracking up. Even though I knew I shouldn’t, I gave myself a bruise.Which of these statements best describes the ambiguity in this excerpt?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The nature of the bruise is unclear.

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