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Whatsoever thwarts, or puts me out of my way, brings death into
my mind. All partial evils, like humors, run into that capital plague
sore.
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1. The narrator compares _____ to a plague sore.
A. whatever thwarts him
B. partial evils
C. bad humor
D. death
E. depression
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2
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(D) Death is compared to a plague sore.
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2. "Capital" used in this context probably means:
A. excellent
B. principal
C. chief city
D. infected
E. the word "plague" should be capitalized
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B
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B
(B) In this context, "capital" means principal.
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B
I have heard some profess an indifference to life. Such hail the end
of their existence as a port of refuge; and speak of the grave as of some
soft arms, in which they may slumber as on a pillow. Some have wooed
death - but out upon thee, I say, thou foul, ugly phantom!
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1. The narrator indicates in this passage that he considers death to be:
A. a port of refuge
B. a pillow
C. soft, comforting arms
D. a foul, ugly phantom
E. all of the above
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C
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C
(D) The narrator considers death to be a foul and ugly phantom.
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C
I detest, abhor, execrate, and (with Friar John) give thee to
six-score thousand devils, as in no instance to be excused or tolerated,
but shunned as an universal viper; to be branded, proscribed, and spoken
evil of! In no way can I be brought to digest thee, thou thin,
melancholy "Privation," or more frightful and confounding "Positive!"
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1. Friar John:
A. has probably argued that death is a friend to the pious
B. is probably in the room with the narrator
C. probably worships the devil
D. like the narrator, curses death
E. all of the above
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(D) The narrator and Friar John agree that death should be cursed.
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2. The narrator argues that:
A. death should be tolerated as a necessary evil
B. people should say only bad things about death
C. death can be stopped if people refuse to accept it
D. death can be caused by either malnutrition or overeating
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D
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D
(B) The author feels that death should be cursed.
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D
Those antidotes, prescribed against the fear of thee, are altogether
frigid and insulting, like thyself. For what satisfaction hath a man,
that he shall "lie down with kings and emperors in death," who in his
lifetime never greatly coveted the society of such bedfellows? - or,
forsooth, that "so shall the fairest face appear"? - why, to comfort me,
must Alice W--n be a goblin?
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1. The prescribed antidotes the narrator mentions refer to:
A. philosophical attempts to come to terms with death
B. medicine used to treat the terminally ill
C. longevity potions
D. death's bitter taste
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E
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E
(A) This phrase refers to rationalizations of death.
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E
More than all, I conceive disgust at those impertinent and
misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones.
Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his
odious truism that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so
shortly, friend, perhaps as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive.
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1. The narrator's use of the word "familiarities" suggests that:
A. most tombstones are inscribed with conventional phrases
B. he has examined many epitaphs
C. death is a common theme
D. he objects to dead men's presuming to lecture him
E. tombstones are a common sight
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F
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F
(D) He resents the tombstones' attempts to preach at him.
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F
I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters! Thy
New Years' days are past. I survive, a jolly candidate for 1821.
Another cup of wine!
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1. In this passage, the author is addressing:
A. death in general
B. his friend, Friar John
C. the dead man who addresses him in his epitaph
D. his own destined death
E. himself
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(C) The narrator is responding to the dead man's epitaph.
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2. In this passage and the preceding ones, the narrator indicates that
he believes in all of the following EXCEPT:
A. Death is odious.
B. The best reply to death is to enjoy life while one lives.
C. Death deserves our respect.
D. Death is inevitable.
E. The living are worth more than the dead.
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G
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G
(C) The narrator does not believe that death is deserving of our respect.
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