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Kim Addonizio, Survivors

Kim Addonizio, Survivors

Read Survivors and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. Which of the following is NOT revealed about the speaker’s lover’s family life?

His mother has written to him for the past seven years.

He has two older brothers.

His father was abusive.

His mother has never supported his sexual orientation.

2. From what inferred illness do the two lovers suffer?

AIDS

polio

pneumonia

lung cancer

3. Why does the speaker want to open the window?

because he hasn’t been outside in months

because he wants to throw his lover’s belongings into the garbage below his window

because it is too hot in their dank apartment

so the parrot can escape and thrive among other birds

4. Which of the following would the lover’s family disapprove of?

the portrait of the two lovers holding hands

the magazine on the coffee table

the pictures on the mantle

the cross on the wall of their bedroom

5. What is the setting of this story?

Detroit, Michigan

New York, New York

Los Angeles, California

San Francisco Bay Area, California