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1. Why is the narrator in the setting at the opening of the novel?

2. Why is it significant that the women discuss their names at the beginning of the novel?

3. Why don’t the Aunts have guns?

4. Who from the first chapter appears again later in the novel?

5. How does the narrator feel about the Commander’s House in Chapter 2? Describe her surroundings as well as her reactions to them.

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