Richard Ford, A City Beyond the Reach of Empathy
Read A City Beyond the Reach of Empathy and check your comprehension by answering the following questions.Then “submit” your work.
1. According to the author, the devastation of New Orleans is
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2. What sparks the author’s memories of New Orleans?
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3. To what event is the author referring when he says that he turned off the television “as I did four years ago next week”?
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4. Why did the 16-year-old boy not rob the author and his wife?
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5. What did the author’s mother buy him on the Algiers Ferry?
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