Which of the following lines BEST reveals the theme selected in Part A?Ī. He sound’ so funny I got scared myself and jumped up and grabbed that light and turned it on him-and there he was.”īased on the passages, which of the following best describes a theme that is being developed in both texts? Seem like he got scared, and he say, ‘Frimbo, why don’t you see?’ Then he didn’t say no more. But all of a sudden he stopped talkin’ and mumbled sump’m ‘bout not bein’ able to see. Then he went on talk’, tellin’ me plenty. Well, I said that I knowed that much already and that I come to found out sump’m I didn’t know. He tol’ me who I was and what I wanted befo’ I could open my mouth. “He didn’t do nothin’ the whole time I was in there. “Did he fall against anything and strike his head?” We didn’t even know he was over the river.” I went back with him-and there was Frimbo, jes’ like you found him. Presently Jinx come bustin’ out pop-eyed and beckoned to me. “We jes’ come here to get this Frimbo’s advice ‘bout a little business project we thought up. “Jinx,” answered the one who called himself Bubber. “It moved,” he cried, with a glance of disgust at the object as it lay on the floor.įrom The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem by Rudolph Fisher “I wish for two hundred pounds,” said the old man distinctly.Ī fine crash from the piano greeted the words, interrupted by a shuddering cry from the old man. His father, smiling shamefacedly at his own credulity, held up the talisman, as his son, with a solemn face, somewhat marred by a wink at his mother, sat down at the piano and struck a few impressive chords. “Well, wish for two hundred pounds, then that’ll just do it.” “If you only cleared the house, you'd be quite happy, wouldn't you?” said Herbert, with his hand on his shoulder. “I don’t know what to wish for, and that’s a fact,” he said, slowly. White took the paw from his pocket and eyed it dubiously. Then answer the multiple choice questions that follow. Reread paragraphs 54-59 of “The Monkey’s Paw” and paragraphs 48–51 of The Conjure-Man Dies: A MystĮry Tale of Dark Harlem.

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