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- A
- The pine is no more lumber than man is, and to be made into boards
- and houses is no more its true and highest use than the truest use of a
- man is to be cut down and made into manure. There is a higher law
- affecting our relation to pines as well as to men.
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- 1. The author implies that:
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- A. Pines, like men, should be treated with respect.
- B. Pines make poor lumber.
- C. The "truest use" of a tree is to become lumber.
- D. It is against the law to cut down pine trees.
- E. All living things eventually return to the earth.
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- a
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- B
- Correct.
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- B
- (A) The author implies we should respect pines and understand a higher
- law affecting our relationship with them.
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- B
- A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human
- carcass is a man. Can he who has discovered only some of the values of
- whalebone and whale oil be said to have discovered the true use of the
- whale? Can he who slays the elephant for his ivory be said to have
- "seen the elephant?"
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- 1. In this passage, the author equates all the following except:
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- A. living trees with elephants
- B. living trees with whales
- C. lumber with ivory
- D. lumber with human carcasses
- E. living trees with human carcasses
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- e
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- 2
- Correct.
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- (E) The author does not equate living trees with dead human carcasses.
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- 2. By "seeing the elephant" the author most nearly means:
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- A. respecting its uniqueness as a living creature
- B. realizing its commercial uses
- C. understanding its transcendent value
- D. both A and C
- E. both A and B
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- d
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- C
- Correct.
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- C
- (D) The author feels that "seeing the elephant" means understanding and
- respecting its total value.
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- C
- These are petty and accidental uses; just as if a stronger race were
- to kill us in order to make buttons and flageolets of our bones; for
- everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use. Every creature is
- better alive than dead, men and moose and pine-trees, and he who
- understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
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- 1. The author's use of the word "accidental" implies:
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- A. that it is appropriate to use the lumber of trees which have died
- by accidental means
- B. that men are often killed by accidents
- C. an unfortunate and arbitrary occurrence
- D. damage inflicted with evil intent
- E. an inevitable fate
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- c
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- D
- Correct.
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- D
- (C) "Accidental uses" would be unintended, arbitrary, lower uses.
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- D
- Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine,
- stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it the tanner
- who has barked it, or he who has boxed it for turpentine, whom posterity
- will fable to have been changed into a pine at last?
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- 1. "Posterity will fable" means that future generations:
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- A. will lie about the lumber industry
- B. will idealize the tanner
- C. will be victims of our insensitivity to nature
- D. will make up legends
- E. will be incapable of comprehending the true value of trees
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- d
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- E
- Correct.
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- E
- (D) "To fable" means to make up legends.
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- E
- No! No! it is the poet; he it is who makes the truest use of the
- pine -- who does not fondle it with an axe, or tickle it with a saw,
- nor stroke it with a plane -- who knows whether its heart is false
- without cutting into it -- who has not bought the stumpage of the
- township on which it stands.
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- 1. The author's primary purpose in writing this essay is to convince us
- that:
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- A. Poets are superior to lumbermen.
- B. Trees have feelings.
- C. Living things should be valued for themselves, not for the
- products that can be made from them.
- D. Poets will be more respected in the future.
- E. Trees are useful to man.
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- c
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- 2
- Correct.
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- (C) The author's purpose is to reveal man's best relationship with
- trees and other living things.
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- 2. The author's use of the word "tickle" is an example of the literary
- device of:
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- A. onomatopoeia
- B. sardonic understatement
- C. analogy
- D. exaggeration
- E. allusion
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- b
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- F
- Correct.
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- F
- (B) The idea of "tickling with a saw" is a mockery, a sardonic
- understatement.
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