Describe Narrator/Speaker: Short Fiction Practice Test
•15 QuestionsRead the excerpt from a short story:
“Everyone in my family tells the story of the flood as if it happened to them personally. My grandfather says he carried three children on his shoulders through waist-high water. My aunt says she saved the family Bible by holding it above her head like a torch. My mother says she remembers the smell, which is convenient because she was two. I was not born then, but I have inherited the flood the way you inherit a chin. Sometimes I speak in memories that aren’t mine because no one else will admit they’ve forgotten. When the river rose again last spring, they looked at me like I was the appointed historian, and I nodded, because nodding is what you do when you’re handed a job no one applied for.”
The narrator’s perspective in the bolded line primarily reveals
Read the excerpt from a short story:
“Everyone in my family tells the story of the flood as if it happened to them personally. My grandfather says he carried three children on his shoulders through waist-high water. My aunt says she saved the family Bible by holding it above her head like a torch. My mother says she remembers the smell, which is convenient because she was two. I was not born then, but I have inherited the flood the way you inherit a chin. Sometimes I speak in memories that aren’t mine because no one else will admit they’ve forgotten. When the river rose again last spring, they looked at me like I was the appointed historian, and I nodded, because nodding is what you do when you’re handed a job no one applied for.”
The narrator’s perspective in the bolded line primarily reveals