An American Childhood Quizzes & Trivia
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Sample QuestionAt the beginning of teh excerpt from An American Childhood, what important thing do you learn about Annie Dillard when she talks about playing football?
In American Childhood, the author discovers that she-not the world-can control her feelings.
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Sample QuestionWhy does the author of An American Childhood resist going to bed when she is five.
An American Childhood Questions & Answers
What important thing do you learn about Annie Dillard when she talks about playing football at the beginning of teh excerpt from An American Childhood? 1. She thinks football is a...
1. She values concentration and courage.
What information must be left out of the story since this excerpt is told in first person point-of-view?
The reader doesn't know others perspectiveon things that she does
What does she mean? After the man catches Dillard and Mikey, Dillard says: He had released our jackets; he knew we weren't going anywhere. We all played by the rules.
1. The children will not try to run away once they have been fairly caught.
Which of the following statements is always true of a first person narrative? Dillard writes from the first-person point of view.
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It is told by one of the characters.
