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Key to Homework 3/31/99 (IC W L15):

III Reading Comprehension

A

B

1. Two sisters.
2. Her parents hoped that she would bring a brother along behind her.
3. "Lai2di4".
4. "Be like a boy"
5. She saw nothing wrong with being a female, and changed her name to a more feminine one.

C (answers in English)

1. Someone in their house would have to go be a soldier..
2. They thought the old father would have to be the one to go.
3. One younger brother.
4. She did everything a man could do, and did it well.
5. Because they had only ever seen her as a male.
6. "If two rabbits are running together along the ground, can you tell which is male and which is female?"
7. Men and women are not essentially that different.