Eraser
Pencil
Inkpot
Pen
Lantern
Name few objects said to be in or on Allan's desk
Right
Answer not provided
Left
On which side of the paper does Allan hold his pen?
Second
First
Two pages are mentioned. Which is described with mixed metaphors, the first or second?
Two lanterns
Lantern light and moonlight
Pen, his ink and desk
Secret service
Lanter and a candle
What are the two light sources Allan is using to write?
"Stepped into their divisions"
"his very time away from her he loved best"
"his childhood friend a bride to-be"
"upsetting the apple cart of his life's plan"
"Allan reviewed the troops"
"prepared to disembark"
What phrases characterize the letters as a group of military men?
Removed his desk, sat down at a drawer, filling paper, pen and inkpot, opened his pen
Sat on his pen, and filled up his book
Sat at desk and filled his pen with ink
He emptied his pen
Filled his pen and got a stack of envelopes
Ate a snack and filled his pen
Sat on his book and filled his desk
What steps did Allan take before writing?
Allan sat down at his desk and pulled the chair in close. Opening a side drawer, he took out a piece of paper and his inkpot. After filling his pen, Allan looked at his paper in the orange glow from the lantern set back in the desk's right-hand corner. His pen cast a forbidding line of shadow slanting across the page, echoing the inky darkness crouching in the edges of the lantern's struggling glow. The only other illumination came from a lurid moonlight filtered through thin branches and clouds, casting its bone-pale glow onto the pine floorboards. Allan unfolded another page, this one crowded with ranks of letters in tight formation from left to right. The lines of letters stepped into their divisions, in the shape of a story's outline: the loose, dry skeleton of a tale lay exposed beneath their feet, awaiting tendons, muscle and blushing skin. Allan reviewed the troops, all prepared to disembark, their task to form the tale of a young man returning home from Life Abroad to find his childhood friend a bride to-be, thus upsetting the apple cart of his life's plan, clarified – of course – by his very time away from her he loved best. Although the concept was a simple one, Allan thought it had potential. Besides, the public liked a good, simple romance. Perhaps this will be more saleable, he thought and began to write. They gazed at each other, lost in the rapture of love based so deeply within their hearts that they had never seen it before. "What about Roger?" she asked, knowing that the answer no longer mattered. 