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Read these lines: "But when he emerged from the towel, he was not yet satisfactory, for the clean territory stopped short at his chin and his jaws, like a mask; below and beyond this line there was a dark expanse of unirrigated soil that spread downward in front and backward around his neck." The words "territory" and "soil" are used to
Ashow that the boy had been playing in a garden
Bexplain why the water in the basin had run out
Cprove that the towel had been dirty to start with
Dmap his washed face as though it were a country
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. map his washed face as though it were a country
1. Territory, line, expanse and soil are all words for describing land.
2. Here they are used of a boy's face after a hurried wash.
3. The washed part becomes a country, the unwashed part becomes dry ground, and the jaw becomes a border between them.
4. Treating a face as a map is option D.
5. Option A takes soil at its literal value and misses that the dirt is simply unwashed skin.
_Source: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), public domain_
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