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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:
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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B
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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:
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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2
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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:
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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C
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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:
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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D
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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:
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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E
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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:
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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2
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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:
A. onomatopoeia
B. sardonic understatement
C. analogy
D. exaggeration
E. allusion
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F
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F
(B) The idea of "tickling with a saw" is a mockery, a sardonic
understatement.
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