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CAHSEE ELA Characteristics: Drill 7, Problem 2. Which of the following best describes the narrator's feelings towards her grandparents?

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00:03

Here's another shmoop for the barbecue...

00:06

The story so sweet you read it twice... hit pause and fall in love with this passage all over again...

00:23

Which of the following BEST describes the narrator's feelings toward her grandparents?

00:27

And here are the potential answers:

00:36

Okay, once again, this question is just testing our overall grasp of the story.

00:40

Can we tell how the narrator feels about these two geezers? Uh... elderly folks?

00:46

Right off the bat, it looks like we can cross off B and D.

00:50

Shame and distrust?

00:51

Sadness and fear?

00:54

If you think either of those are remote possibilities, you're not reading the same passage we are.

00:58

Okay, so it's down to A and C

01:01

Love and affection... or understanding and kindness.

01:05

Either one could work... but we're looking for the BEST answer.

01:09

And in this case, the narrator's attitude toward her grandparents goes beyond mere understanding

01:15

and kindness.

01:16

Those two words make it seem almost as if she's barely tolerating them... but instead,

01:21

she adores their story, and seems to love them an awful lot.

01:26

Which means that our clear answer is "love and affection... A.

01:30

As in, "Acupuncture."

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