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AP English Literature and Composition 1.4 Passage Drill 1. Which of the following best describes the speaker's attitude towards immortality?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.5 Passage Drill 6. Lines 17-18 imply that the speaker's greatest concern is what?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.5 Passage Drill 1. In the third paragraph, how does the author foreshadow a coming tone shift?
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AP English Literature and Composition 1.3 Passage Drill 3. From the passage, one can infer which of the following of Amory's view of pacifism?
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It's time for your daily dose of shmoop... Better get cozy with this passage... it's
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going to be your friend for a while... hit pause and check it out...
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From the passage, one can infer which of the following of Amory's view of pacifism?
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I. He views it as suspect and unpatriotic.
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II. He views it as exemplifying Burne's "primal honesty."
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III. He views it as futile and anachronistic.
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And here are the potential answers...
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These Roman numeral questions are nice, because we really only have to check out THREE choices rather than FIVE.
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For those who don't count arithmetic as one of their strong suits... three is less than
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five. You can double-check on your fingers if you're not buying it.
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Okay, first up -- "He views it as suspect and unpatriotic."
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Does this describe Amory's view of pacifism?
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They're trying to trip us up here, because yeah -- he does express some suspicion in
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lines 29 through 34...
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...but the unpatriotic part? No, nothing to support it... which makes Roman numeral one...false.
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Next -- "He views it as exemplifying Burne's "primal honesty."
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"Primal honesty" is in quotes, which means we can expect that exact phrase to appear
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somewhere in the passage...
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...once we finally track it down -- they put it at the very end of the passage, sneaky
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devils -- we can see evidence that, yes indeedy, this tells us something about Amory's view of pacifism.
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So numero dos appears to be true... What about the third one -- "He views it as
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futile and anachronistic?"
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Line 44 spells things out for us here... yeah, Amory describes pacifism as futile...
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And what about "anachronistic?" What, is he afraid of spiders or something?
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Actually, anachronistic has to do with something that doesn't quite fit with its time...
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...much like Amory describes pacifism in lines 23 to 24.
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So Two and Three are true, making the correct option... letter B.
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Three cheers for Roman numerals.
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