I'll tell you. M' father, Pip, he were given to drink, and when he were overtook with drink, he hammered away at my mother, most unmerciful. It were a'most the only hammering he did, indeed, 'xcepting at myself. And he hammered at me with a wigour only to be equalled by the wigour with which he didn't hammer at his anwil. - You're a-listening and understanding, Pip?"
In this excerpt, the action of "hammering"
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Discussion
I don't really think the narrator is unreliable. She is very astute in her reasoning. She tells us she would recognize the unknown woman if she saw her in the street.
If unreliable means that she is trying to figure out who the woman was, then yes, we cannot believe everything she is saying. She is trying to figure something out that she does not have the answer to.
We really don't have enough information to answer the question. That being said, I would pick A. She is trying to puzzle out who the woman was and what she was doing there.
Answer: A
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Saki's short story, ''The Mouse,'' explores the overly worried mind of the main character, Theodoric, as he frets his way through an odd predicament. In order to dislodge a mouse from his clothing, Theodoric must strip down in the middle of a train car, in front of a young woman.
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a) illicit
b) discreet
c) patronize
d) elicit
e) discreet
f) vain
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7.) Incorrect. (Philanthropy means the desire of supporting others, mostly financially.) And so the answer is A(Support of a charity)
8.) Incorrect. (Xenophobia is intense fear or paranoia of people from other countries.) So the answer would be C(Critic)
9.) Incorrect. ( Amity means a certain friendship) So the answer is D(appeasement).
