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My destiny! Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of
merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is
some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of
unextinguishable regrets.
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1. The narrator believes:
A. Life is a joke to be enjoyed.
B. The purpose of one's destiny cannot be determined by logic.
C. Knowledge of oneself is ultimately satisfying.
D. Faith in mercy from a higher power will be rewarded.
E. One's life is controlled by uncaring forces.
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(E) The narrator believes life's purpose is futile and therefore must
be controlled by uncaring forces.
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2. The narrator's tone in this passage is primarily:
A. bitter
B. hopeful
C. confused
D. sanctimonious
E. determined
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B
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B
(A) The narrator is bitter, believing that life is futile
and self-knowledge yields only regrets.
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B
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest
you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing
underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour,
without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great
fear of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid scepticism, without much
belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.
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1. The narrator suggests that "wrestling with death":
A. is the ultimate glory of human life
B. is noticed and respected by one's companions
C. involves dramatic events on the battlefield
D. happens when one has a strong belief in oneself
E. none of the above
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(E) The narrator feels that "wrestling with death" is unexciting.
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2. The narrator develops and expresses his idea by using:
A. simile
B. extended metaphor
C. logic
D. exaggeration
E. examples
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(B) Comparing "wrestling with death" to an "unexciting contest" is
an extended metaphor.
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3. The phrase "impalpable greyness" in this context implies:
A. moral confusion
B. a cloudy, foggy day
C. dawn or twilight
D. that the contest with death occurs in old age
E. that one cannot understand death without dying
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C
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C
(A) "Impalpable greyness" is a metaphor for moral confusion.
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C
If such is the form of ultimate wisdom, then life is a greater
riddle than some of us think it to be. I was within a hair's breadth
of the last opportunity for pronouncement, and I found with humiliation
that probably I would have nothing to say. This is the reason why I
affirm that Kurtz was a remarkable man. He had something to say.
He said it.
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1. Judging from the passage, the speaker most likely:
A. is devoutly religious
B. no longer cares for philosophical questions
C. feels satisfied with himself
D. has undergone a profound moral crisis
E. is in grave physical danger
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D
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D
(D) The speaker has undergone a profound moral crisis in a physical
and mental confrontation with death.
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D
Since I had peeped over the edge myself, I understand better the
meaning of his stare, that could not see the flame of the candle, but
was wide enough to penetrate all the hearts that beat in darkness.
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1. In this passage, the author uses vision as a symbol of:
A. intelligence
B. understanding destiny
C. optimism
D. religious faith
E. giving up hope
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E
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E
(B) One who can see into "all the hearts that beat in the darkness" has
insight and understanding.
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E
He had summed up -- he had judged. `The horror!' He was a
remarkable man. After all, this was the expression of some sort of
belief; it had candour, it had conviction, it had a vibrating note
of revolt in its whisper, it had the appalling face of a glimpsed
truth -- the strange commingling of desire and hate.
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1. This passage, together with the preceding ones, implies that Kurtz:
A. is calmly resigned to his fate
B. has triumphed over the problem he faced
C. hates the narrator
D. is lying to the narrator
E. has come to some knowledge of himself
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F
(E) Kurtz had summed up his life with candour and conviction:
"The horror!"
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