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Question 38 • GA-English Language Arts 8

Which allusion from “A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long” best shows how reading fueled the speaker’s imagination?

Answer

The neighbors, discussing the politicalSituation congratulating the preacherOn his sermon

I heard nat king cole and matt dennis, june christy and ella fitzgeraldAnd sometimes sarah vaughan sing black coffeeWhich I now drink

Mrs. Long asking what are you looking for todayWhen I wanted Leaves of Grass or alfred north whiteheadShe would go to the big library uptown and I now knowHat in hand to ask to borrow so that I might borrow

But there was a worldSomewhereOut thereAnd Mrs. Long opened that wardrobe

Explanation

The allusion to a wardrobe points to the wardrobe in C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which leads to a magical world. The speaker says Mrs. Long “opened that wardrobe,” suggesting that books let reading open imaginative worlds. The other choices refer to neighbors, music, or borrowing books, but do not show that imaginative escape as directly.

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