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1 2 3 7 Sharon Belletieri lived with her parents in a famous kind of sanitary house where you couldn't get TB or rheumatic fever because it had no drafts. "You won't have to worry about polio," Betsy Lou had told me The house had venetian blinds like my aunt's, and there was also a television set, an immense one of 4 legs. Howdy Doody was on, but no one was watching. I did not know what to say to the children. They 5 all knew each other, and their screams and giggles had a natural continuity, something like the way my 6 mother talked with her sister, and like the splendid houses of the neighborhood, all set so close together. For her birthday, Sharon's parents gave her a Toni doll that took my breath away. It had a bolero $ sundress, lace-edged panties and slip, and white shoes and socks--an outfit as fine as any of Lunetta's. It came with a Play Wave, including plastic spin curlers and Toni Creme Rinse. The doll's magic nylon hair was supposed to grow softer in texture the more you gave it permanent waves. Feeling self-conscious in my new playsuit, I sat quietly at the party, longing to give that doll a permanent. Eventually, even though I had hardly opened my mouth, someone laughed at my accent. I had said the unfortunate word "hair" again, in reference to the doll Sharon said, "She's from Kentucky." Growing bold and inspired, I said, "Well, we don't have any reds in Kentucky 10 11 12 15 47. From the passage, one can conclude that people in Detroit at the time of the story were afraid of ( point) communists. both communists and diseases. diseases. none of the above 48. The word or phrase below closest in meaning to that intended by "natural continuity" in line 5 is (1 point) predictability. stilted quality. easy connectedness. boring sameness. 49. Based on the context of the passage, the narrator might be best described as feeling (I point) jealous Cdisdainful victimized out of place 50. This passage, taken by itself, best exemplifies which of the following? (1 point) character study moral fable social and cultural description psychological investigation