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Select words from the above box to describe the characters in the play as revealed by the following lines from the play. Lines from the play Speaker Quality revealed 1. “You told him she was feeling poorly, did you? And so my brother is to be kept out of bed, and go without his supper because you told him she was feeling poorly.” 2. __________ “take my comforter, it will keep you warm.” 3. “If people lie to me they are poorer, not I.” 4. “You are like a child. I can’t trust you out of my sight. No sooner my back is turned than you get that minx Marie to sell the silver salt-cellars.” 5. “My dear there is so much suffering in the world, and I can do so very little.” 6. “My mother gave them to me on − on her death bed just after you were born, and − and she asked me to keep them in remembrance of her, so I would like to keep them.” 7. “I am too old a bird to be caught with chaff.” 8. “You have your soul to lose, my son.” 9. “Give me food or I’ll stick my knife in you both and help myself.” 10. “__________they have made me what I am, they have made me a thief. God curse them all.” 11. “Why the devil are you kind to me? What do you want?” 12. “I − I − didn’t believe there was any good in the world…but somehow I − I − know you’re good, and − and it’s a queer thing to ask, but could you, would you bless me before I go?”

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Select
words from the above box to describe the characters in the play as
revealed by the following lines from the play.









































































Lines
from the play



Speaker



Quality
revealed



1. “You
told him she was feeling poorly, did you? And so my brother is to
be kept out of bed, and go without his supper because you told him
she was feeling poorly.”







2.
__________
“take my comforter, it will keep you warm.”







3. “If
people lie to me they are poorer, not I.”







4. “You
are like a child. I can’t trust you out of my sight. No
sooner my back is turned than you get that minx Marie to sell the
silver salt-cellars.”







5. “My
dear there is so much suffering in the world, and I can do so very
little.”







6.
“My mother gave them to me on

− on her death bed just after you were born, and − and
she asked me to keep them in remembrance of her, so I would like
to keep them.”







7. “I am
too old a bird to be caught with chaff.”







8. “You
have your soul to lose, my son.”







9. “Give
me food or I’ll stick my knife in you both and help myself.”







10.
__________they
have made me what I am, they have made me a thief. God curse them
all.”







11. “Why
the devil are you kind to me? What do you want?”







12.
“I

I − didn’t believe there was any good in the world…but
somehow I − I − know you’re good, and −
and it’s a queer thing to ask, but could you, would you
bless me before I go?”








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