Answer Questions 1-9 based on The Lost Years of Merlin by TA. Barron. This is the same passage we read in class this week.
Item #1
• "A strange face, belonging to a boy he did not know, peered back at him."
(paragraph 21)
• "Yet the ache felt somehow deeper, as if something beneath his shoulders had been torn away long ago." (paragraph 29)
Which of the following from the excerpt is best supported by the sentences?
(1 point)
A. "His head smacked against a stone, so violently that his skull would surely have split open were it not for the thick mat of hair that covered it."
B. "All he could feel was the painful throbbing of his head, and the rocks jabbing into his shoulders."
C. "Had he come from somewhere out there, beyond the sea?"
D. "Almost as if he had lost a piece of his very self."