Those Winter Sundays / Robert Hayden

Test Practice

Identify Main Ideas

With a partner, discuss how to answer these questions about the selection.

1. When the speaker was young, how did he treat his father?
a. He was rude to him.
b. He thanked him frequently.
c. He acted as though he didn’t care.
d. He expressed his love freely.


What is the correct answer to the question above? How did the information you gathered during reading help you eliminate incorrect answers?

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