Question

questions 6 through 12 refer to the following. read the following passage carefully before you choose your answers. this passage is excerpted from caroline gordons short story tom rivers, published in 1933. the narrator is reminiscing with some of his cousins. we talk about cousins like these for a while, but we go on finally to people we knew more intimately, people whose characters have left us, even after all these years, something to wonder about. we speculate on how and when robert allard began taking morphine, and what induced maggie mclean to turn jim crenfew down for a nincompoop like edward brewer. somebody has seen the notice of maggies death in a new orleans paper. we think of it, but we cannot take it in. we see her as she was when she first came to merry point to visit, a frail, high - spirited girl, who made us indignant with her outrageous treatment of jim crenfew. we talk on like that until we almost all the people who ever came here in the old days. we hold them in our minds until they seem to live again. i look up through the branches of the sugar tree to where a light burns dimly in one of the upstairs rooms. girls might be dressing there for a party. at any moment, i may hear the rumbling, explosive laugh of jim crenfew. at such a time, none of us three will stop talking. we keep up the illusion, with a name here, a name there. seeking to make the scene more complete, we cast about on the fringes of our enormous family connection. what ever became of this cousin, or how was that person connected? it is then that tom riverss name will be mentioned infrequently, i say. one or two summers will go by, and i may not hear his name. and then it will be spoken, and i have always that start, half pleasure, half pride, and i realize that no matter whether i hear his name or not he is never out of my memory. there is a curious thing i have observed. if you sit day after day, summer after summer, in a chair under the same tree, you will notice how the light falls under and through the boughs. 7 mark for review the narrator speaks from the point of view of a a member of a close - knit family whose knowledge is limited by his experiences b an outsider who provides a fresh perspective on familial relationships c a lover of nature whose passion constrains the insights he can offer d an external presence who provides reliable insight into characters thoughts

Explanation:

The narrator reminisces about family members and speculates on their actions. They talk about cousins and others in the family, showing they are part of the family. Their knowledge seems limited as they are just speculating about certain events like why someone took morphine etc.

Answer:

A. a member of a close - knit family whose knowledge is limited by his experiences