Which of the following inferences is most strongly supported by the following lines taken from the novel written by Ethel Turner ?
“Before you fairly start this story I should like to give you just a word of warning.
If you imagine you are going to read of model children, with perhaps; a naughtily inclined one to point a moral, you had better lay down the book immediately and betake yourself to ‘Sandford and Merton’ or similar standard juvenile works. Not one of the seven is really good, for the very excellent reason that Australian children never are.
In England, and America, and Africa, and Africa, and Asia, the little folks may be paragons of virtue, I know little about them. But in Australia a model child is - I say it not without thankfulness- an unknown quantity.”
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A.
The novel constructs a strong sense of Australian identity As Anglo-Celtic and middle-class, and asserts that the children portrayed are distinctively Australian, rather than as transplants from a British public school, which must have been a more typical of such literature at the time.
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B.
The novel applauds the idea that children from different continents are the representative of different virtues but still tries to put Australian kids in superior light.
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C.
The novel criticizes that the children who are always shown in the light of virtue actually hides behind the mask which is not a characteristic in Australian Literature.
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D.
The novel constructs a strong sense of Australian superiority and demarcates children from Australia and other nations.
Correct Answer:
A. The novel constructs a strong sense of Australian identity As Anglo-Celtic and middle-class, and asserts that the children portrayed are distinctively Australian, rather than as transplants from a British public school, which must have been a more typical of such literature at the time.
Explanation:
The given lines strongly support the information presented in option (a), making option (a) the correct choice.
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