Read the following poems carefully and answer the questions that follows. |
Early Memory |
I remember picking up a fistful |
of sand, smooth crystals, like hourglass sand |
and throwing it into the eyes of a boy. Johny or |
Danny or Kevin - he was not important. |
I was five and I knew he would cry. |
I remember everything about it - |
The sandbox in the corner of the room |
at Cinderella Day Care; Ms. Lee, |
Who ran over after the boy wailed for his mother, |
Her stern look as the words No snack formed on her lips. |
My hands with their gritty, half-mooned fingernails. |
I hid in the pockets of my blue and white dress. |
How she found them and uncurled small sandy fists. |
There must have been such rage in me, to give such pain |
to another person. This afternoon, |
I saw a man pull a gold chain off the neck |
of a woman as she crossed the street. |
She cried out with a sound that bleached me. |
I walked on, unable to help, |
knowing that fire in childhood |
clenched deep in my pockets all the way home. |
January Gill O' Nell |
A) he was caught with his sandy hands
B) he uncurled small sandy fists
C) he saw a chain snatching incident
D) he threw sand in the eyes of a boy in childhood
Correct Answer: D
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