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Advanced Composition for Non-Native Speakers of English

Two Portraits

Directions: The sentences in this quiz are about Two Portraits by Kate Chopin. Specifically, this quiz focuses on The Wanton. Please indicate whether the sentences are simple, compound, or complex..

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1: Actually, Two Portraits by Kate Chopin contains desriptions of a wanton and a nun.: Simple
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2: Kate Chopin begins each portrait with identical paragraphs.: Simple
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3: Both Alberta, the wanton, and Alberta, the nun, were young and had mysterious eyes.: Simple
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4: Alberta liked the women who praised her beauty, the artists who painted it naked, and the student who fondled and kissed her.: Simple
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5: Although Alberta was beaten by her mother for it, she liked to sit on her teacher's knee and allow him to fondle her.: Simple
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6: People in Alberta's life were always coming and going, so she did not have a very stable childhood.: Simple
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7: Although her mother beat her many times, Alberta was very sad when she died.: Simple
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8: Alberta forgot about all the beatings and remembered just the outbursts of torrid affection.: Simple
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9: Alberta's body was too beautiful for beatings, for it was made for love.: Simple
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10: Alberta knew that because she had heard it many times before.: Simple
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11: Alberta did not need instruction for the ways of stirring a man's desire and holding it.: Simple
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12: At seventeen she was woman enough, so she had a lover.: Simple
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13: At the age of seventeen, Alberta had a lot of gold to make herself more beautiful.: Simple
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14: Alberta had enough gold to give to beggars, but she was criticized for it.: Simple
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15: Alberta was warned to be cautious with her gold, for the days of youth and beauty are slipping away.: Simple
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16: Soon you will stretch out your hands for money and love, but there will be none left for you.: Simple
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17: The fear of being old and poor didn't worry Alberta because death and oblivion were always within her reach.: Simple
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18: Alberta gives her love only when and where she chooses.: Simple
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19: One or two men have died because Alberta withheld her love.: Simple
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20: Alberta is dangerous because she drinks too much wine and carries a knife.: Simple
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