High School Reading Grades 11 12 Quiz
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From the novel House of Small Doors, narrated by Iris:
My sister Constance arrived on Thursday, as she always does, with a casserole and a list of grievances. The casserole was for our mother. The grievances were for me. Constance believes that I have failed our mother in seventeen specific ways, which she enumerates over tea, and I let her, because Constance is easier to endure than to answer, and because — this is the part I do not say — she is right about eleven of them.
I have never told Constance which eleven. To do so would be to grant her the satisfaction of a partial victory, and Constance, who lives on satisfaction the way other people live on bread, would take that partial victory and grow fat on it, and then arrive next Thursday with a longer list.
Iris's point of view can only be fully grasped if the reader distinguishes between:
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