Read these excerpts.

excerpt from “Araby” by James Joyce

The wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes, under one of which I found the late tenant’s rusty bicycle-pump.

excerpt from “Genesis 2.9” from the Bible

The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this story.

Which pair of quotations best shows how Joyce links the excerpt from Genesis with the excerpt from “Araby”?


A.) “a few straggling bushes” with “the tree of life”

B.) “a central apple-tree” with “the tree of knowledge”

C.) “the… rusty bicycle-pump” with “good and evil”

D.) “behind the house” with “middle of the garden”