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'It was January and Monday. I began to understand. After every weekend, my father had to gather his nerve to go back to teaching. During the Christmas vacation he became slack and in a fury of screw-turning had to retighten himself. The long haul he called the stretch between Christmas and Easter. '
John Updike, The Centaur.
The long haul in the narrative above describes

A.
a long strike
B.
Christmas and Easter holidays
C.
a long period of hard work
D.
a long vacation

Answer: C

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