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three key textual quotations to support each of your answers. For each answer try to choose examples from the beginning, the middle, and the end of the text.
1. What is Cora's economic reality?
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2. How does she respond to this economic reality?
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3. What is Cora's social status?
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4. How does she respond to this reality?
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5. What are Cora's values? What are her beliefs? What things are most important to her?
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6. How does Cora respond to adversity, to situations that would cause difficulty for many people? (Both her own and others.)
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7. What do Cora's responses to adversity tell you about her?
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8. What is the significance of this story's title? How does it foreshadow Cora's actions?
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9. Is Cora a believable character?
Why or why not? What about her does or does not ring true?
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