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Glencoe Language Arts: Grammar and Language Workbook, Grade 9

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McGraw-Hill

ISBN: 9780028182940

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Exercise 1

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Among authors who have won the Nobel Prize for literature is Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean poet who wrote the collection $text{underline{Sonnets of Death}}$.

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Her haunting early poems often reflect the sadness of her childhood and youth, which she spent as a schoolteacher in the Chilean countryside.

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Her later poems are concerned with the joys of motherhood, social justice, and the plight of the poor $text{underline{campesinos}}$ (rural people of Latin America).

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What prizewinning author is known for her portrayals of life in the Middle Ages?

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Sigrid Undset, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1928, is the author of
$text{underline{Kristin Lavrasdatter}}$, an epic story of life and love in medieval Norway.

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The winner of the 1928 Nobel Prize in literature was American Pearl Buck, whose famous novel, $text{underline{The Good Earth}}$, is based on her experiences living in China.

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$text{underline{The Good Earth}}$, which tells the story of Chinese peasants very much like the ones Pearl Buck lived with in the 1920s and 1930s, has been translated into at least sixty-five different languages.

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Another American winner of the Nobel Prize in literature is Toni Morrison. Her rich, absorbing novels, such as $text{underline{The Bluest Eye}}$ reveal both beauties and tragedies of African American life.

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In the category of peace, one indeed in which women have won a large number of Nobel Prizes, two American women have been honored.

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Perhaps best known as the founder of Hull House, a famous community center in Chicago, Jane Addams won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

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Perhaps best known as the founder of Hull House, a famous community center in Chicago, Jane Addams won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

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The name of Emily Balch, unlike Jane Addams’s, is not familiar to most Americans.

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Throughout her ninety-four years, Emily Balch was a tireless worker for the rights of women and for international peace.

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Her efforts were rewarded in 1946 with the Nobel committee’s decision to award her the Nobel Peace Prize.

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