GED GED-Reading - GED Reasoning Through Language Arts

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The narrator tries to appease her friend by saying, "It’s only make-believe," but her friend cries out, "No! It isn’t! You know it isn’t!" (lines 39–42). With what are the girls wrestling?

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Why is "Mama Africa" an appropriate nickname for Makeba?

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Who is Mrs. Hale blaming when she says, “That was a crime! That was a crime” (lines 56–57)?

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Based on Rozin’s character as revealed in this excerpt, if Rozin has to tell her daughters that she is leaving the family for a while, how would she probably do it?

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Why has the narrator stopped playing golf?

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When Rose tells Sam that he is “different” from anybody she knows (lines 4–5), what is she acknowledging?

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Why does Mr. Knightley call Harriet a "simpleton" (line 61)?

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When Anatou protests that she has no magical power, Tarto answers by saying, “Don’t you want to? Don’t you want to help us, Anatou?” (lines 20–21). What do Tarto’s words reveal?

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What is revealed about the quality of the speaker’s love when she says, “Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad” (lines 13–14)?

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Later in the story, the teacher says, "You have to believe to be a teacher." How does this statement differ from the teacher’s feelings in this excerpt?