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- At the altar she did not know that she was a sacrifice; but before
- sunset of that winter day she knew it, if a judgement may be formed from
- her face and attitude of despair when she alighted from the carriage on the
- afternoon of her marriage-day. The bridegroom jumped out of the carriage
- and walked away.
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- 1. From this passage the reader can assume
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- A. This was a marriage of convenience.
- B. This marriage was forced upon the groom.
- C. The bride and groom were strangers - this was an arranged marriage.
- D. After the wedding ceremony, the bride discovered that her husband
- did not love her.
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- B
- Correct.
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- B
- The bride realized her husband did not love her. (D)
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- B
- The bride alighted, and came up the steps alone, with a countenance
- and frame agonized and listless with evident horror and despair. From
- this shock she certainly rallied, and soon. The pecuniary difficulties of
- her new home were exactly what a devoted spirit like hers was fitted to
- encounter. Her husband bore testimony, after the catastrophe, that a
- brighter being, a more sympathizing and agreeable companion, never blessed
- any man's home.
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- 1. The bride was all of the following EXCEPT
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- A. pleasant
- B. poor
- C. kind
- D. accepting
- E. agreeable
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- C
- Correct.
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- C
- The bride was not poor. (B)
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- C
- When he afterward called her cold and mathematical, and over-pious,
- and so forth, it was when public opinion had gone against him, and when he
- had discovered that her fidelity and mercy, her silence and magnanimity,
- might be relied on, so that he was at full liberty to make his part good,
- as far as she was concerned.
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- 1. The husband said unkind things about his wife because
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- A. she was a shrew
- B. he wanted her to divorce him
- C. he wanted to make her unhappy
- D. he needed a scapegoat
- E. it was expected of him
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- D
- Correct.
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- D
- He ridiculed her in order to avoid accepting responsibility for his own
- actions. (D)
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- D
- Not all at once did the full knowledge of the dreadful reality into
- which she had entered come upon the young wife. She knew vaguely, from
- the wild avowals of the first hours of their marriage, that there was a
- dreadful secret of guilt, that Byron's soul was torn with agonies of
- remorse, and that he had no love to give to her in return for a love which
- was ready to do and dare all for him.
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- 1. From this passage we can assume
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- A. The wife never discovered her husband's secret.
- B. Eventually Byron became a good husband.
- C. Byron felt sorry for his wife.
- D. The wife, in time, discovered the reason for her husband's behavior.
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- E
- Correct.
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- E
- Eventually, the wife learned her husband's secret. (D)
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- E
- Yet bravely she addressed herself to the task of soothing and pleasing
- and calming the man whom she had taken "for better or for worse." The most
- dreadful men to live with are those who alternate between angel and devil.
- The buds of hope and love called out by a day or two of sunshine are frozen
- again and again till the tree is killed.
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- 1. It appears that
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- A. Sometimes he was kind and sometimes he was cruel.
- B. He played the devil to make her despise him.
- C. She was impatient with his moods.
- D. She often hoped he would change his attitude.
- E. She often wished she had never married.
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- F
- Correct.
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- F
- His behavior alternated between good and evil. (A)
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- F
- But there came an hour of revelation, an hour when, in a manner which
- left no kind of room for doubt, Lady Byron saw the full depth of the abyss
- of infamy which her marriage was expected to cover, and understood that she
- was expected to be the cloak and the accomplice of this infamy.
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- 1. In this passage the word "cloak" means
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- A. a coat
- B. a coverup
- C. a cape
- D. an accomplice
- E. a fool
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- G
- Correct.
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- G
- "Cloak" is used to mean a coverup for Byron's deeds. (B)
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- G
- Many women would have been utterly crushed by such a disclosure;
- some would have fled from him immediately, and exposed and denounced the
- crime. Lady Byron would neither leave her husband nor betray him, nor yet
- would she for one moment justify his sin; and hence came two years of
- convulsive struggle.
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- 1. Lady Byron's attitude was
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- A. total dismay
- B. calm acceptance
- C. reasonable and rational
- D. complete disbelief
- E. shock and disgust
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- H
- Correct.
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- H
- She approached the situation rationally. (C)
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