Joyce Carol Oates, When I Was a Little Girl and My Mother Didn’t Want Me
Read When I Was a Little Girl and My Mother Didn’t Want Me and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.
1. Who is the speaker?
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2. How did the speaker’s father die?
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3. To what moment is the speaker referring when she says, “Yet this was how my life was decided”?
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4. Who do the following lines describe: “She spoke Hungarian all her life. / She never learned to read. She never learned to drive a car”?
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5. How does the speaker respond to the discovery that her mother gave her away?
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