Read the selection in your Student Edition and choose the best answer to each question. My Life as a Bat
by Margaret Atwood

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Select two reasons the author uses historical references in paragraph 3.
Group of answer choices

To demonstrate irony in the claims of those who say they were reincarnated

To impress the reader with the narrator’s experiences in a previous life

To support the idea that the narrator becomes a bat as punishment for her sins

To explain the narrator’s logic for claiming that reincarnation is real

To cast doubt on the narrator’s claim that she was reincarnated as a bat