This task is about finding information and making inferences from a poem.
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Read the poem "Parcel", Choices, 1997, to help answer the questions.
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The poem tells how Holland is different from the place where the speaker in the poem now lives.
Write down five of these differences.
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Which word best describes how the speaker in this poem is feeling?
(A) Sad
(B) Lonely (C) Homesick (D) Rejected |
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What does the line, "The streets are wide and tarseal sticky", tell you about December weather in New Zealand?
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How does the way the poem ends connect with the way the poem begins?
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| e) |
In what way has Holland "become a parcel"?
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