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Question 1. The answer is perfection. This is made clear by the narrators obsession with the beauty and perfection of the white umbrella.
Question 2. The answer is because she had to work late. The story clearly states that their mother wasn't going to be on time because she had to work.
Question 3. The best answer I can come up with is that she knows her feelings of shame are inappropriate.
I gave the answers to questions 4 and 5 in the comments.
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I am pretty sure that the meter of the following poetic passage is B. anapestic tetrameter. The thing which will make it absolutely clear (and which actually lead me to choose B as the answer) is that these lines have this pattern : da da DUM da da DUM which is characterisric of anapestic tetrameter.
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index = Alphabetical List Of Topics
acknowledges = List of People Who Helped The Author
bibliography = List of Sources Used
visual aids = Pictures
preface = Introduction
