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QuizMultiple Choice

Pronoun Agreement and Reference — Cumulative exam

Question 11 • GA-Literature and Composition III A

Read the excerpt from "Missing in Action” by Thanhha Lai.(1) Father left home(2) on a navy mission(3) on this day(4) nine years ago(5) when I was almost one.(6) He was captured(7) on Route 1(8) an hour south of the city(9) by moped.(10) That’s all we know.

Answer
A
Line 1 establishes a mysterious event that the speaker wants the reader to solve.
B
The end of the first stanza emphasizes the speaker’s sadness over how young she was at that time.
C
Line 7 helps the reader identify where the event described by the speaker occurred.
D
The one-sentence stanza emphasizes the speaker’s frank attitude toward the event being described.

Explanation

The final stanza consists of the single sentence “That’s all we know.” Its short, direct wording emphasizes the speaker’s frank acknowledgment that the family has very little information about what happened. Line 7 says that her father was captured; the location is given in lines 8 and 9, so choice C misidentifies the line.

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