Compréhension de l’écrit

DocumentA Revelation

1 What type of document is this text taken from?

2 In which country did the narrator spend his childhood?

3 Which sentence in the text best illustrates the mother’s feelings about black people?

4 “She would remind me of his story” (l. 1). Who is the mother talking about?

5 According to the mother, which qualities did this person have?

6 Pick out five elements which the mother used in order to introduce black American culture to her son.

7 What message do you think the mother wanted to convey by telling “stories of schoolchildren in the South” (l. 13-14)?

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a. What was the narrator’s “moment of revelation” (l. 29)? Quote from the text.

b. Where exactly did it happen?

9 The narrator imagines three situations in which other black children could feel the way he did. Describe them in your own words (40 words).

10 This revelation had an impact on the narrator.

a. How had he felt about his identity before it?

b. Why did this revelation shock him so much that day?

11 To what extent did this experience change the narrator (30 words) ?

12 “I kept these observations to myself” (l. 58). Explain in your own words why he didn’t share his observations with his mother (30 words).