ENG 221 – FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun Quote - ANS "By the time I was 11 I had begun to wonder
whether my father really had abandoned me, and if he hadn't abandoned me, why didn't I ever
get any letters from him?" (103)
Good Mother Quote - ANS "Kids remember the time when you're there, not the time when
you're there, not the time when you're gone, so you just have to try to be as present as you can
when you're there" (54)
The Shawl Quote - ANS "Not until she died did he start the heavy sort of drinking, the
continuous drinking, where we were left alone in the house for days" (85)
Braiding Sweetgrass Quote - ANS "We can choose. If all the world is a commodity, how poor
we grow. When all the world is a gift in motion, how wealthy we become" (31)
To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian Quote - ANS "This is true we are feeding each other from
a tree at the corner of Christian and 9th strangers maybe never again"
The Boy Quote - ANS "And my brother will walk ahead of us home, and my father will shave
his head bald, and my brother will not speak to anyone the next month, not a word, not pass
the milk, nothing" (15)
Sixth Grade Quote - ANS "A gang of boys. They pulled the heavy garage doors down, and tied
us to them with clothesline, and Donny got the deer's leg severed from the buck his dad had
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, killed the year before, dried up and still fur-covered, and sort of poked it at us, dancing around
the blacktop in his sneakers, laughing" (16)
Grosvenor Road Quote - ANS "It was years before someone figured: rats, I don't know who
exactly, and weeks before the men could come to fix it, and then a month or more of living
through the stench of something dying, of some things, as it turned out, and worse, when the
radiator where we tossed our soggy mittens, knocked and warmed" (31)
From My Father's Side of the Bed Quote - ANS "When he had fallen deep asleep and was
snoring and I had moved out slowly from under his heavy arm, I would sometimes nudge him a
little, not to wake him" (20)
The Mother Quote - ANS "On the landing, in her bathrobe, by the laundry chute, unmoving,
like a statue in the children's game her children play"
The Attic Quote - ANS "I don't know if he know's he's building a world where I can one day
love a man-he sits there without saying anything" (29)
The Copper Beech Quote - ANS "I could lean against the trunk and practice being alone. One
day, I heard the sound before I saw it, rain fell darkening the sidewalk" (34)
The Girl Quote - ANS "When I look at the girl I was, dripping in her bathing suit, or riding her
bike, pumping hard down the newly paved street"
Two or Three Times Quote - ANS "The two or three times my father tried to quit drinking, for
a few days maybe a week, he would walk carefully around the house, feeling his way through
the kitchen and the pantry" (75)
What the Living Do Quote - ANS "I've been thinking: This is what the living do. And yesterday,
hurrying along those wobbly bricks in the Cambridge sidewalk, spilling my coffee down my wrist
and sleeve, I thought it again, and again later, when buying a hairbrush" (89)
Notes on a Silencing Quote - ANS "I was assaulted in privilege; I have survived in privilege" (5)
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AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun Quote - ANS "By the time I was 11 I had begun to wonder
whether my father really had abandoned me, and if he hadn't abandoned me, why didn't I ever
get any letters from him?" (103)
Good Mother Quote - ANS "Kids remember the time when you're there, not the time when
you're there, not the time when you're gone, so you just have to try to be as present as you can
when you're there" (54)
The Shawl Quote - ANS "Not until she died did he start the heavy sort of drinking, the
continuous drinking, where we were left alone in the house for days" (85)
Braiding Sweetgrass Quote - ANS "We can choose. If all the world is a commodity, how poor
we grow. When all the world is a gift in motion, how wealthy we become" (31)
To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian Quote - ANS "This is true we are feeding each other from
a tree at the corner of Christian and 9th strangers maybe never again"
The Boy Quote - ANS "And my brother will walk ahead of us home, and my father will shave
his head bald, and my brother will not speak to anyone the next month, not a word, not pass
the milk, nothing" (15)
Sixth Grade Quote - ANS "A gang of boys. They pulled the heavy garage doors down, and tied
us to them with clothesline, and Donny got the deer's leg severed from the buck his dad had
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, killed the year before, dried up and still fur-covered, and sort of poked it at us, dancing around
the blacktop in his sneakers, laughing" (16)
Grosvenor Road Quote - ANS "It was years before someone figured: rats, I don't know who
exactly, and weeks before the men could come to fix it, and then a month or more of living
through the stench of something dying, of some things, as it turned out, and worse, when the
radiator where we tossed our soggy mittens, knocked and warmed" (31)
From My Father's Side of the Bed Quote - ANS "When he had fallen deep asleep and was
snoring and I had moved out slowly from under his heavy arm, I would sometimes nudge him a
little, not to wake him" (20)
The Mother Quote - ANS "On the landing, in her bathrobe, by the laundry chute, unmoving,
like a statue in the children's game her children play"
The Attic Quote - ANS "I don't know if he know's he's building a world where I can one day
love a man-he sits there without saying anything" (29)
The Copper Beech Quote - ANS "I could lean against the trunk and practice being alone. One
day, I heard the sound before I saw it, rain fell darkening the sidewalk" (34)
The Girl Quote - ANS "When I look at the girl I was, dripping in her bathing suit, or riding her
bike, pumping hard down the newly paved street"
Two or Three Times Quote - ANS "The two or three times my father tried to quit drinking, for
a few days maybe a week, he would walk carefully around the house, feeling his way through
the kitchen and the pantry" (75)
What the Living Do Quote - ANS "I've been thinking: This is what the living do. And yesterday,
hurrying along those wobbly bricks in the Cambridge sidewalk, spilling my coffee down my wrist
and sleeve, I thought it again, and again later, when buying a hairbrush" (89)
Notes on a Silencing Quote - ANS "I was assaulted in privilege; I have survived in privilege" (5)
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