Conflict and Plot Structure in Robin Hood — Unit test

Question 24 • 25-26 TX-Literary Genres

Which excerpt provides a clue to the time period in which "Homesickness" takes place?

Answer

“As well as this, she kept being sick and refused to eat and ran a temperature. . . .”

“I set about devising a stunt for getting myself sent back home. . . .”

“. . . she had had a nurse’s training and she didn’t want a ruptured appendix on her hands.”

“I was taken home across the Bristol Channel on the paddle-steamer. . . .”

Explanation

The paddle-steamer is the clearest clue to the story’s time period. Paddle-steamers were a form of transportation associated with an earlier era, so the detail suggests when “Homesickness” takes place. The other excerpts describe illness or the narrator’s plan, but do not point as clearly to a historical period.

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