Compare and Contrast: The Dishonest Merchant and Guilty

1. Why does the peasant want to meet with the prince?

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2. Which sentence from the story hints that the merchant plans to trick the peasant?

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Which word or words from paragraph 8 help the reader understand the meaning of the word "departed"?

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4. What is the best summary for the story?

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5. Based on the poem, what can the reader conclude about the speaker's past behavior?

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6. Why does the poem begin and end with the same line?

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7. Read these two lines from the poem:

My father shook his head at me.

My mother gave her a hug.

These two lines reveal that the speaker's parents --

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8. How are the merchant in "The Dishonest Merchant" and the speaker in "Guilty" similar?

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9. The actions of the prince in the story and the parents in the poem are based on --

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10. How is the point of view in the poem different from that of the story?

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