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His thoughts wandered to conditions, to contingencies, of which a
man does not permit himself to think about without a degree of moral
disintegration. In these ill-advised reveries he mused upon his life
as it might have been if he had never met her, or if they had never met
after her dismissal of him.
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1. In this passage, the author suggests that moral disintegration:
A. causes conditional thinking
B. will affect one's future
C. is an inevitable product of certain trains of thought
D. is ill-advised
E. is caused by involvement with women
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B
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B
(C) The author does suggest that certain trains of thought lead to
moral disintegration.
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B
As he recalled the facts, he was at that time in an angry and
embittered mood, but he was in a mood of entire acquiescence; and
the reconciliation had been of her own seeking.
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1. Judging from this passage, the man seems to feel that:
A. he resisted the reconciliation
B. his bitterness prevented him from accepting her overtures
C. the woman was responsible for their reconciliation
D. he was joyful about their reconciliation
E. none of the above
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C
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C
(C) The man feels that it was the woman who had sought reconciliation.
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C
He could not blame her for it; she was very much in love with him,
and he had been fond of her. In fact, he was still very fond of her;
when he thought of little ways of hers, it filled him with tenderness.
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1. The wording of the passage suggests that:
A. the man and the woman were deeply in love
B. the woman loved him but he did not love her
C. he loved the woman very much but she did not return his love
D. the man is glad that he reconciled with her
E. none of the above
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D
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D
(B) Although the woman loved him, he did not love her.
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D
He did justice to her fine qualities, too: her generosity, her
truthfulness, her entire loyalty to his best interests; he smiled to
realize that he himself preferred his second-best interests, and in
her absence he remembered that even her virtues were tedious, and
even painful at times.
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1. In this context, "second-best interests" implies:
A. the woman is conspiring against him
B. the man wishes she were not so concerned with his welfare
C. the man feels that the woman takes good care of him
D. A and C
E. B and C
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E
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E
(E) This phrase suggests that the woman took better care of him than
he desired.
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E
He had his doubts whether there was sufficient compensation in
them. He sometimes questioned whether he had not made a great mistake
to get married; he expected now to stick it through; but this doubt
occurred to him.
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1. The man doubts:
A. that the woman is worth her cost
B. that the woman is happy being married to him
C. his own worth
D. the woman's virtue
E. whether he will remain married
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F
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F
(A) The man doubted that the woman's virtues compensated for the
constraints which marriage placed upon him.
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F
A moment came in which he asked himself, What if he had never come
back to Marcia that night when she locked him out of her room? Might
it not have been better for both of them? She would soon have reconciled
herself to the irreparable; he even thought of her happy in a second
marriage; and the thought did not enrage him; he generously wished
Marcia well.
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1. Although it is not explicitly stated, one may infer from this and the
preceding passages all of the following EXCEPT:
A. he wishes his marriage were over
B. he resents Marcia's virtuous love for him
C. he feels fortunate to be loved by such a good woman
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G
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G
(C) The man does not appreciate Marcia's virtuous love for him.
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G
He wished - he hardly knew what he wished. He wished nothing at all
but to have his wife and child back again as soon as possible; and he
put aside with a laugh the fancies which really found no such distinct
formulation as I have given them; which were mere vague impulses,
arrested mental tendencies, scraps of undirected reverie.
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1. In this passage, the author makes it clear that the man:
A. did not really mean what he had been thinking
B. had been having fun at his wife's expense
C. was frightened and confused by his thoughts
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2
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(C) The man laughed to dispel his confusing and frightening thoughts.
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2. After reading these passages, one can most likely anticipate that:
A. the man will divorce his wife
B. all will continue as before
C. Marcia will realize he resents her
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H
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(B) Most likely, things will remain unchanged.
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