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Medium Reading and Writing · Information and Ideas · Central Ideas and Details · MCQ

The following text is adapted from Christina Rossetti’s 1881 poem “Monna Innominata 2.”

I wish I could remember that first day,

 First hour, first moment of your meeting me,

 If bright or dim the season, it might be

Summer or Winter for [all] I can say;

So unrecorded did it slip away,

 So blind was I to see and to foresee,

 So dull to mark the budding of my tree

That would not blossom yet for many a May.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

  1. A

    The speaker celebrates how the passage of time has strengthened a relationship that once seemed unimportant. 

  2. B

    Because the speaker did not anticipate how important a relationship would become, she cannot recall how the relationship began, which she regrets. 

  3. C

    As the anniversary of the beginning of an important relationship approaches, the speaker feels conflicted about how best to commemorate it.

  4. D

    After years of neglecting a once valuable relationship, the speaker worries it may be too late for her to salvage the relationship. 

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