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- A
- 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.
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- A. whatever thwarts him
- B. partial evils
- C. bad humor
- D. death
- E. depression
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- Correct.
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- (D) Death is compared to a plague sore.
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- 2. "Capital" used in this context probably means:
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- A. excellent
- B. principal
- C. chief city
- D. infected
- E. the word "plague" should be capitalized
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- B
- Correct.
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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:
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- 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
- Correct.
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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:
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- 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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- Correct.
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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:
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- 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
- Correct.
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- D
- (B) The author feels that death should be cursed.
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- 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:
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- 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
- Correct.
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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:
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- 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
- Correct.
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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:
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- 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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- 2
- Correct.
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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:
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- 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
- Correct.
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- G
- (C) The narrator does not believe that death is deserving of our respect.
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