First Snow (See Personal Insights 19

question 47

Multiple Choice

First Snow (see Personal Insights 19.1 in the eighth edition of Death & Dying, Life & Living ) is a book for children in which a young girl __________.

• A)has her beliefs confirmed that life and death are but two parts of the same thing
• B)is frightened when a snowflake lands on her finger
• C)misses an opportunity to experience snow for the first time
• D)is told by her parents what it means to say that her grandmother is dying
• E)makes her first snowball

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