O Caso Curioso de Benjamin Button

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91a KUM Z Name Date / / Benjamin Button 1 Time : to : Extract from The Curious Case of Benjamin Button I Read the passage. The Roger Buttons held an enviable position, both social and financial, in ante-bellum Baltimore. They were related to the This Family and the That Family, which, as every Southerner knew, entitled them to membership in that enormous peerage which largely populated the Confederacy. This was their first experience with the charming old custom of having Mr. Button was naturally nervous. He hoped it would be a boy so that Kumon Institute of Education KIE KIE 2010 BR Printed in Brazil he could be sent to Yale College in Connecticut, at which institution Mr. Button himself had been known for four years by the somewhat obvious nickname of "Cuff." in ante-bellum Baltimore in Baltimore before the war (Guerra Civil) the Confederacy a group of eleven southern states that wanted to separate from the US around the mid-1800s the somewhat obvious nickname of "Cuff" : "Cuff" was an obvious nickname because his last name was "Button," and cuffs and buttons are parts of a shirt. II Write words from the passage that have the same meaning. each) Mr. Roger Button and his wife held 1) held gave them the right to be members of that very important peerage entitled them 2) largely lived in the Confederacy 3) III Complete the explanation using words from the passage. [-3] In the above passage, "They were means that the Roger Buttons PS 2211 were related to several important, well-known families.