By William Faulkner
The hockey player
The coach
Faulkner
An audience member who is not named
Fakeness
Expectancy
Coldness
None of the above
He thinks it is exciting and enjoyable to watch.
He thinks that is brutish and inelegant.
He thinks that it is complicated and swift.
It cannot be discerned from this description.
Violence is never appropriate, even in sports.
Violence needs to have purpose, not mere brutality.
Violence is a natural consequence of sports and should be controlled as best as possible.
All of the above
More violence
Fewer spectators
More controlled environments
Fewer injuries
Hockey was not familiar to many of Faulkner’s readers; therefore, the players were not familiar either.
The purpose of the article was not about hockey itself, but sports in general.
Faulkner was working to convey impressions of the game rather than exact statistics and players involved with the game.
All of the above.
An innocent is a person who is new to something, and he wishes to remind those who might be offended by his points that he is commenting as someone with no experience.
Faulkner wishes to convey to the audience that he has no malice at all towards sports in America, and by repeating this line he is suggesting that everything he says is factual and true.
Being a writer prone to lumbering and unwieldy descriptions and sentences, he wished to add another level of interpretation to the article for his literary critics.
None of the above
Innocent fascination
Hopeful observation
Experienced boredom
Nonchalant detachment
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