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The document contains excerpts from Emily Dickinson's poem emphasizing the power of books to transport readers to distant lands and experiences. It also discusses contemporary Indigenous writers like Tanya Tagaq and Nathan Adler, who blend traditional storytelling with popular genres. Additionally, it references Anton Chekhov's play 'Uncle Vanya,' highlighting the professor's struggle to adapt to country life.

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The document contains excerpts from Emily Dickinson's poem emphasizing the power of books to transport readers to distant lands and experiences. It also discusses contemporary Indigenous writers like Tanya Tagaq and Nathan Adler, who blend traditional storytelling with popular genres. Additionally, it references Anton Chekhov's play 'Uncle Vanya,' highlighting the professor's struggle to adapt to country life.

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The following text is Emily Dicknison’s circa 1873 poem “There ia no Frigate like a Book”.

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Frigate like a Book” A Frigate is a light fast ship; courses are swift horses.

There is no Frigate like a Book


To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry—
This Traverse may the poorest take
Withut oppress of Toll—
How frugal is the Chariot
That bears the Human soul.

8. Which choice best states the main idea of the text?


A.Reading gives people a reprieve from the nancial focus of moderm life.
B.Poetry can forge connections between people trom ditteren cultures.
C.People can learn more about distant places by reading books than by traveling to those places.
D.Literature can metaphorcally transport people to new places regardless of their means.
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9. Tanya Tagagsa is a writer and musician and a member of the Inuit conmunity of Cambrndge Bay in
northern Canada. Critics and fellow writers have praised her work tor combining tradional Inuit stories
with popular genres of literarure, such as fantasy ction. But Tagaq is not the only indiginous writer to
blend traditional stories with popular Iiterature.In the 2016 novel Wrist, Nathan Adier successfully
blended the oral storytelling tradition of their people,the Anishinnabe, with horror ction.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?


A.Several famous indigenous writters increased their book sales when they began incorporating
tradtional stories.
B.The success of Tanya Tagaq has in uence non-indigenous authors who write in popular literary
genre.
C.Non-indigenous authors should consider the experience of indigenous readers.
D.Recent Indigenous ction writers are mixing traditional stories with popular literary genres
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10. Uncle Vanya: Scenes From Country Life in Four Acts is an 1898 play by Anton Chekhov, originally written in
Russian. In the play, professor Serabrako and his wife Helena have come to stay at their country estate,
which Vanya manages with the help of Sonta, the professor’s daughter from a previous marriage. Chekhov
portrays the professor as being unable to adjust to living at tne country estate, as is evident when____

Which quotation from a translation of Uncle Vanya most e ectively illustrate the claim?
A.Professor Sereirrakatf says to Helena. "I am used to my library and the Lecture hall and to the esteem and
admiration of my colleagues suddenly nd myself plunged into this wilderness [the estate], condemned to see
the same stupid people from morning till night and listen to their futile conversations.”
B.Profesor Serebrakoti says,“I am a book-worn and a scholar, and am unfamiliar with practical a ars. I
cannot, I nd, dispense with the help of well-infomed people.
C. Vanya says to himseld, “Professor Sereirrakatf is absolutely unknown, and his fame has burst like a soap-
bubble”
D.Professor Serebrakot says to Helena,“Ever since l have been old, I have been hateful to myself, and I am
sure, hateful to you all as well.”
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