"A Wagner Matinee"

The story is set in which of the following cities?

• Boston
• Chicago
• Atlanta
• New York

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

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What type of social activities did the city offer?

• sports
• academic lectures
• fine arts and music

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Why is Aunt Georgiana visiting the city?

• She is moving there with her husband
• She was returning to work after a vacation
• She had been She had been left a small inheritance by a bachelor relative and had to go settle the estate.
• She was performing in a play.

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What was Aunt Georgiana's occupation early in her life?

• seamstress
• music teacher
• writer
• artist

Where did Aunt Georgiana move after she was married?

• Arkansas
• Nebraska
• Oklahoma
• Missouri

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CCSS.RL.2.10

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What kind of lifestyle did Georgiana live after moving  away with her husband?

• luxurious
• unsophisticated
• wild
• adventurous

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Aunt Georgiana used to teach Clark 

• how to care for wounds
• how to feed animals
• how to bake
• his music scales and exercises

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Why did she tell Clark not to become in love with music?

• She said that things you love are taken from you.
• She said that music was a hard profession.
• She said that people did not respect musicians
• She said that music was not a worthy pursuit.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Why did Clark's aunt cry at the opera?

• She thought the production was terrible.
• She felt she had failed her own opera company.
• She knew she would be forced to leave such music behind when she returned home.

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What would be Georgiana's only connection to music once she returned to her home?

• amateur concerts
• training her nephew
• church music
• composing for her husband