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Other Country
Ernest Hemingway (excerpts)

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"In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it any more. It was cold in the fall and the dark came very early. Then the lights came on, and it was pleasant along the streets looking in the windows. There was much game hanging outside the shops, and the snow powdered in the fur of the foxes and the wind blew their tails. The deer hung stiff and heavy and empty, and small birds blew in the wind and the wind turned their feathers. It was a cold fall and the wind came down from the mountains."

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"People hated us because we were officers, and in a wine-shop someone called out, 'A basso gli ufficiali!' as we passed. Another boy who walked with us sometimes and made us laugh had a black silk handkerchief across his face because he had no nose then and his face was to be rebuilt. He had gone out to the front from a military academy and been wounded in the first action."

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Select the correct answer.

What important fact about the wounded soldiers is reflected by the repetition of the bolded sentences in the excerpts from "In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway?

A. It establishes the irony that, although the wounded soldiers have physically left the warfront, the war continues to haunt them psychologically.

B. It shows the gradual loss of hope and growing depression of the wounded soldiers and their need for distractions.

C. It establishes the wounded soldiers' determination to shun war and disobey military commands to return to the front after they recover.

D. It shows the wounded soldiers' sadness and disappointment at the lack of gratitude from the people they risked their lives to protect.

E. It shows the wounded soldiers' belief that the war would never end, even as thousands of soldiers were killed or wounded and sent to hospitals.

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