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"A Wagner Matinée" Review
Answer the following questions about "A Wagner Matinée."
1. From Uncle Howard's letter, Clark learns that _________.
2. Aunt Georgiana used to be a __________.
3. Read the quote from Aunt Georgiana to Clark.
"Don't love it so well, Clark, or it may be taken from you. Oh! dear boy, pray that whatever your sacrifice be it is not that."
Why did she tell Clark not to love music too much?
4. Where did Clark take his aunt?
5. Read the passage from the stroy.
"Her eyes were closed, but the tears were glistening on her cheeks, and I think in a moment more they were in my eyes as well. It never really dies, then, the soul? It withers to the outward eye only, like that strange moss which can lie on a dusty shelf half a century and yet, if placed in water, grows green again."
How does this passage suggest that Aunt Georgiana felt about the performance?