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Herta Müller, Workday

Herta Müller, Workday

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

1. How does time proceed in Müller’s short story?

It proceeds chronologically.

There is no time or reference to time in the story.

Time jumps between her life as a child in Germany and as an adult in England.

It proceeds in reverse and jumbled.

2. The narrators says she “eat[s] a slice of ___, and drink[s] a cup of ____.”

tea; bread

milk; honey

toothbrush; comb

pie; orange juice

3. What does the narrator buy at the food store?

cigarettes

a doll

milk

a newspaper

4. How does the narrator get to work?

by streetcar

by train

by bus

by car

5. What is the last sentence of the story?

“I work for eight hours.”

“I get up and take off my dress.”

“The alarm rings.”

“I take off my shoes.”