{"id":5447,"date":"2020-04-03T04:56:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T11:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldenkeytutor.com\/?page_id=5447"},"modified":"2020-04-03T17:01:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T00:01:58","slug":"english-11-12-quiz-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/goldenkeytutor.com\/en\/free-quiz\/english-11-12-quiz-1\/","title":{"rendered":"English 11 – 12 Quiz 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Head Cook at Weddings and Funerals by Vi Plotnikoff<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. \u201cThe most wonderful day in a mother\u2019s life is when her daughter marries into a good family,\u201d I often heard Aunt Florence say. \u201cBecause she knows her girl will be taken care of for the rest of her life.\u201d<\/li>
  2. My mother would agree with her sister, then look around at her three daughters with a some what worried expression.<\/li>
  3. Aunt Florence, predictably, had married well. Her husband\u2019s relatives were all pillars of the Doukhobor community.<\/li>
  4. Aunt Florence and Uncle Fred had a son, Fred Junior, who\u2019d married well to an agreeable and pretty girl named Tina, from an upstanding Doukhobor family. They proceeded to move into the apartment right across the courtyard from Fred\u2019s parents and produce little Fred, much to the delight of Aunt Florence.<\/li>
  5. Aunt Florence\u2019s other child was a girl, my cousin Marusa, four years older than I. Her mother had great expectations of Marusa, who was extraordinarily pretty with her dark curls, sparkling brown eyes and tiny figure\u2014a figure much enhanced by the fitted gabardine skirts she wore, the delicate nylon blouses with little artificial bouquets of flowers at the throat, or the soft, fuzzy, pastel sweaters. I felt awkward and plain next to her. I was a giraffe with straight blonde hair and blue eyes.<\/li>
  6. When I visited her house, Marusa could sometimes be pleasant, even fun. Not stuck-up like she was at school. She let me try on her earrings and makeup, but only if she was in the mood.<\/li>
  7. \u201cShe can have her pick of all the nicest Doukhobor boys,\u201d Aunt Florence would say. \u201cYou should see Saturday morning at our place. The fancy cars and pickup trucks come in a stream, asking Marusa to go to the movies that night. She\u2019ll marry well.\u201d<\/li>
  8. Marusa was almost seventeen by now and dating for nearly a year.<\/li>
  9. Peter was a tall, gawky young man with a too-short haircut and a pleasing personality. He wasn\u2019t very good-looking except when he smiled and showed his dimples. He was showing a lot of dimples tonight.<\/li>
  10. Peter was considered an exceedingly good catch, especially by the mothers of marriageable daughters.His parents had a small tidy farm, vast apple orchards, a large ranch house with many bedrooms to accommodate their four sons. Mable Zarubin, Peter\u2019s mother, was a hard-working opinionated woman who kept a clean home and was a renowned cook. In fact her borsch became so famous, she\u2019d graduated to head cook at weddings and funerals.<\/li>
  11. Most of the women in the Doukhobor community helped out with cooking at these important events.The huge wedding feast required several settings, depending on the number of friends and relatives invited, as did the after-funeral meal serving the singers, gravediggers and family of the deceased.<\/li>
  12. Always at these occasions, in the place of honour at the dining table, there was the borsch. The special soup, thick with vegetables, laced with rich cream. The dish every young girl learned to cook at her mother\u2019s side.<\/li>
  13. Peter\u2019s mother had impressed the older women with her knowledge as to the right amount of butter and whipping cream, the correct pinch of dill, the quick and pretty way she shredded the cabbage,diced potatoes. So it was at an early age that she became head cook, instructing the other cooks,tasting, giving the final nod to the borsch before it was carried out to the tables by the serving women.<\/li>
  14. Marusa and Peter began going steady that spring and the following Christmas she received an engagement ring with a tiny diamond.<\/li>
  15. On a hot evening, a few days after Marusa\u2019s eighteenth birthday, just as we were finishing supper dishes in the stifling kitchen, Peter\u2019s new pink and white Pontiac with the chrome fins drove into our yard. Peter had quit school and got on at the sawmill, making payments to the credit union on the car.<\/li>
  16. Through the screen door, we watched Marusa lift a big box from the back seat, give it to Peter and hand in hand they walked up the steps.<\/li>
  17. \u201cCome in, come in both of you,\u201d mama bustled about, taking off her stained apron and shoving shoes into a corner. \u201cHave you had your supper? It won\u2019t take me a minute to set the table, heat the soup.I made it with fresh peas from the garden.<\/li>
  18. I stared at mama. Now that Marusa was almost a wife, she\u2019d suddenly acquired a dignified new status. Above waitress or store clerk or even secretary. Only a teacher or nurse was superior to a well-married woman.<\/li>
  19. \u201cThank you, tyota, but we\u2019ve already eaten at Peter\u2019s place. His mother taught me to make galooptsi3.\u201d<\/li>
  20. \u201cYours were even better than my mother\u2019s,\u201d Peter said.<\/li>
  21. Peter must be blind in love, I thought. Unless she\u2019d improved vastly, Marusa was a careless cook. I\u2019d seen her vareniki come apart in boiling water, fillings bubbling on top, pastry wrappers floating merrily. <\/li>
  22. I want to show you something,\u201d Marusa said.<\/li>
  23. She untied string from the box, pushed aside tissue, lifted out lace and satin.<\/li>
  24. \u201cPage 352, Eaton\u2019s catalogue,\u201d I breathed.<\/li>
  25. \u201cMarusa, what have you done?\u201d Mother\u2019s shocked voice.<\/li>
  26. \u201cIsn\u2019t it beautiful? And look at the veil.\u201d<\/li>
  27. \u201cBut I saw your mother sewing your wedding clothes,\u201d mama said.<\/li>
  28. \u201cShe doesn\u2019t know. I borrowed the money from Peter.\u201d<\/li>
  29. \u201cYou should tell your mother right away. I don\u2019t think she\u2019ll let you wear it.\u201d<\/li>
  30. \u201cIt\u2019s my wedding and I should wear whatever I want. But I want you to tell her. She won\u2019t listen to me.\u201d Marusa had her stubborn look.<\/li>
  31. \u201cOh Marusa, you should wear it. It\u2019s just beautiful.\u201d<\/li>
  32. \u201cQuiet, Ana, this is none of your business. Marusa,\u201d she turned to her niece, \u201cyou must tell your mother yourself.\u201d<\/li>
  33. \u201cShe\u2019s too worried about what Peter\u2019s mother will say.\u201d She looked at Peter, who was fidgeting with his car keys. \u201cWell? Don\u2019t you think I should wear what I want for my own wedding?\u201d<\/li>
  34. \u201cYour mother and mine won\u2019t like it,\u201d he said in a mild, hesitant voice.<\/li>
  35. \u201cWhose wedding is it anyway? I thought it was ours.\u201d<\/li>
  36. She scooped up the gown, stuffed it into the box and marched outdoors, ponytail bobbing. Peter followed, looking worried.<\/li>
  37. It was a clear and dewy summer morning. A beautiful day to be married. We were up early, rushed through chores and breakfast, dressed in new clothes purchased at the co-op. Hurried to the bride\u2019s home to help with the cooking and the table setting.<\/li>
  38. Loud voices broke out directly overhead in Marusa\u2019s bedroom. Aunt Florence\u2019s sounded mad. I dropped the pans in the sink, went through the living room, past guests who lolled on couches and chairs which were pushed back against the walls to make room for the dining tables.<\/li>
  39. Upstairs I skimmed along the corridor, past bedrooms with their tall narrow windows, spare white washed walls, where Marusa\u2019s grandparents and parents slept. And I thought it no wonder Marusa often complained everyone knew when she came in on a Saturday night, for each squeaky tiptoe, each cautious footstep could be heard on the creaking floorboards as she crept past all those disapproving doors. <\/li>
  40. The small commotion brewing around Marusa\u2019s door consisted of the bride, her aunt and her mother.Aunt Florence had her turkey look on. Face all red, neck long, saying in a loud voice that she was so ashamed, and to change right away and maybe just maybe not too much harm was done even though it would be all over town by Monday. Marusa was weeping, ruining her rouge, and my mother was standing ineffectually between them, clasping and unclasping her hands.<\/li>
  41. Then Marusa, who\u2019d looked right through me at school and kept on talking to her friends, who\u2019 dignored me during family visits unless she was bored and then taken me upstairs, told me ghosts were seen floating along the dim hallways, even told me I\u2019d been a foundling abandoned by my real mother near the cemetery, suddenly became Marusa my friend. She reached out and took my hand.<\/li>
  42. In that instant, as we faced our mothers, I became her ally. Us against them. Cousins forever. I felt her cool fingers, the pressure of the unfamiliar wedding band.<\/li>
  43. \u201cYes. Wear what you want, Marusa. It\u2019s your marriage.\u201d<\/li>
  44. Was that me sounding profound and grown up? Aunt Florence and my mother looked at me for the first time, not knowing what to make of this unexpected alliance.<\/li>
  45. \u201cIt\u2019s your wedding, after all.\u201d<\/li>
  46. \u201cAna,\u201d my mother had recovered. \u201cIt\u2019s none of your business, or mine either. I\u2019m not going to take sides, Florence,\u201d she said, then turned to Marusa. \u201cAlthough it will be easier on everyone if you give into your mother, dear.\u201d Diplomatic. No one could ever get mad at my mother.<\/li>
  47. Marusa let go of my fingers, smiled at me as I said one last \u201cdo it,\u201d shrugged her shoulders.<\/li>
  48. I went downstairs, thinking I\u2019d do the same some day. When my turn came, I wouldn\u2019t give in either.For I\u2019d felt Marusa\u2019s strength. Through her I could reach my dreams, unformed as they were. MaybeI\u2019d take the university program at school, go on to college. I wouldn\u2019t even marry before I was twenty.I could do as I wanted and Marusa had shown me how. She\u2019d opened the door a crack and I had slipped through after her. And the best, most wonderful part of all was that she had turned to me.<\/li>
  49. \u201cI am ready,\u201d a voice said, and there she was, in her traditional outfit, as demure5 as she\u2019d looked at the zapoy6. She searched the group of people around the steps, seeking approval, smiling when she found it. She didn\u2019t look at me.<\/li>
  50. I followed the crowd to the cars, my unformed dreams dying inside me.<\/li>
  51. It was fleeting, Marusa\u2019s independence. Just those few hours in the wedding gown when she lived herd ream. And mine. For after the wedding, after the ceremonies and the feasting, she became a dutiful wife. Within a year she bore a son. Within five years, she had three little boys tugging at her while she shopped at the co-op.<\/li>
  52. Under Mable\u2019s tutelage, Marusa was becoming an expert cook, her pirahi pastry light, her borsch renowned. It was rumoured, according to Aunt Florence, that Marusa would eventually take over her mother-in-law\u2019s position as head cook at weddings and funerals. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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