Comparative quotes

Question 1

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Answer 1

The future is just more of the past waiting to happen (T)

Question 2

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Answer 2

Memory is pain trying to resurrect itself (T)

Question 3

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Answer 3

Nothing. I feel nothing (S)

Question 4

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Answer 4

With her gone nothing could keep me there – father I am running I feel joy not fear (T)

Question 5

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Answer 5

A large block of ice is suspended by seven strong ropes. It is melting, dripping on to a freshly grave of red earth

Question 6

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Answer 6

I miss my grandmother. She took so many stories with her to the grave, stories of her life, our traditions, our heritage of her now gone. I resent that. (S)

Question 7

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Answer 7

Told not to speak. Told not to dance. Told not to do what we have always done (S)

Question 8

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Answer 8

I lie painfully sleepless. In a place where I know things are sacred. Watching unsympathetic wanderings (S)

Question 9

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Answer 9

We’re not fighting. We’re grieving (S)

Question 10

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Answer 10

I forget as hard as I can (T)

Question 11

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Answer 11

I would have to make it up to please you (T)

Question 12

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Answer 12

Too much has happened to put right. I would need another life..to unravel this knotted mess (T)

Question 13

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Answer 13

He did not demonstrate an ounce of your common sense. His spirit was wild, you’re tame - Sanders junior (T)

Question 14

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Answer 14

He said what did I want to do something silly like dreaming about Africa for - greatgrandaughter (T)

Question 15

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Answer 15

There is no sight more perfidious than that of a white woman with a black man - The Virginian (T)

Question 16

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Answer 16

suitcase. She opens it and proceeds to throw the
contents all over the ground, everything. […] Crying, at last, crying (S)

Question 17

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Answer 17

The resuscitation attempts were unsuccessful and at 7.13 p.m.
he was pronounced dead. (S)

Question 18

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Answer 18

‘Defiant Aboriginal March’
‘Aboriginal March, Traffic Stopper’
No one said that about the fucken Santa Parade the week
before! (S)

Question 19

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Answer 19

We must not allow this trade to turn us into savages. We are Christians (T)

Question 20

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Answer 20

The Woman slams a nail through
two pieces of wood. She stands and carries the wooden cross over to
the grave. As she drives it into the red earth, the words ‘FOR SALE’
are revealed.
What is it worth? (S)

Question 21

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Answer 21

No matter how much we smile and nod,
We are black, and we are here, and that will never change. - The Woman’s Brother (S)

Question 22

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Answer 22

She takes the suitcase, opens it,
throwing the red earth and family photos it contains all over the
floor. The Woman grieves over the photographs. (S)

Question 23

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Answer 23

Cook is his wife, whatever the outcome, he loves her - Mr Whitechapel (T)

Question 24

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Answer 24

Our cultures that have been denied us.
But we have been taught to cry quietly (S)

Question 25

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Answer 25

I fear I can no longer grieve
I am so full and know my capacity for grief (S)