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Read the passage.
1.09 Unit Test: Narrative Techniques and Structure - Part 1
Secret in Slovakia
After 17 hours of travel, we had finally made it. It was 10 o'clock
at night and we were in Slovakia, standing in front of Great-Aunt
Gertrude's house, which stood at the end of a long, narrow
street and looked to be made of ancient stone. The wind came
whistling through the trees that surrounded the house in a way
that reminded me of an eerie fairy tale that my grandmother told
me when I was a child. In the dark, with its front windows and
double-arched doors, the house looked as if it were about to eat
us. Two days later, when we left, I would look at the house in the
daylight and think it was very charming. Right then, I wanted
nothing more than to find the inside much less frightening than
the outside
I was in Slovakia with my mother and uncle to prepare Aunt
Gertrude's house to be sold. Two years ago, when she became
Part A
What is the best description of the impact of the story's climax?
It provides an unexpected twist that dramatically
changes the narrator's view of Aunt Gertrude
It releases the tension of the story by confirming what
the characters always thought about Aunt Gertrude
It sends the characters in search of a solution to the
mystery introduced in the passage's complicating
incident
It raises the stakes and ratchets up the tension in the
story as the narrator wonders what is in the box
Part B