Questions from Once Upon a Time 1. What motivated Nadine Gordimer to write this short story for children?

2. Summarize the advantages of the family in the story.

3. What warning did the family receive?

4. What proved the family wasn’t racist, according to the narrator? Was she being facetious?

Explain.

5. Why didn’t the father fear riots in their area? What did the wife fear?

6. What negative activities were happening in the “other” neighborhood?

7. What negative activities were happening in their own neighborhood?

8. What did the housemaid suggest for the protection of their house?

9. Why weren’t all the alarm systems in their neighborhood as effective as they should be?

10. Did all of the protections in the neighborhood prevent burglaries? Explain.

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Which two lines in this excerpt from arthur conan doyle's "the contest" suggest that emperor nero was ruthless? each choice is in brackets. [an hour later the shepherd was well on his way to his mountain home, and about the same time the emperor, having received the chaplet of olympia for the incomparable excellence of his performance, was making inquiries with a frowning brow as to who the insolent person might be who had dared to utter such contemptuous criticisms.] [“bring him to me here this instant,” said he, “and let marcus with his knife and branding-iron be in attendance.”] [“rumours! ” cried the angry nero. “what do you mean, arsenius? i tell you that the fellow was an ignorant upstart, with the bearing of a boor and the voice of a peacock.] [i have half a mind to burn their town about their ears so that they may remember my visit.”] [“i conquered! you are mad, arsenius. what do you mean? ”] [it is whispered that for once the great god pan has condescended to measure himself against a mortal.”]

Which characteristic of james baldwin’s “notes of a native son” qualify as a work of literary nonfiction