Globalization and the Information Age: Postmodernism into the Twenty-First Century — Test

Question 13 • TPS EdX English Language Arts 11

Which line from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close reveals a nostalgic tone?

Answer

Even after a year, I still had an extremely difficult time doing certain things, like taking showers, for some reason, and getting into elevators, obviously.

A lot of the time I’d get that feeling like I was in the middle of a huge black ocean, or in deep space, but not in the fascinating way.

It’s just that everything was incredibly far away from me. It was worst at night. I started inventing things, and then I couldn’t stop, like beavers, which I know about.

We used to Greco-Roman wrestle on the floor in there, and tell hilarious jokes, and once we hung a pendulum from the ceiling and put a circle of dominoes on the floor to prove that the earth rotated.

Explanation

A nostalgic tone looks back on the past with affection or longing. Choice D remembers wrestling, telling jokes, and doing an experiment together, using “used to” to describe shared activities from an earlier time. The other lines focus more on distress or isolation than fond memories.

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