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"Shall we never, never get rid of the Past? It lies upon the
Present like a giant's dead body! In fact, the case is just as if a
young giant were compelled to waste all his strength in carrying about
the corpse of the old giant, his grandfather, who died a long time ago,
and only needs to be decently buried."
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1. The speaker uses a simile to suggest that:
A. He misses a deceased relative.
B. He reveres the great men of the past.
C. He feels the past is a disagreeable burden.
D. He wishes people could forget the past.
E. Both C and D
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B
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B
(E) To the speaker, the past is like a dead weight which he would like
to get rid of or forget.
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B
"Just think a moment, and it will startle you to see what slaves
we are to by-gone times, -- to Death, if we give the matter the right
word!"
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1. The speaker equates:
A. the past with slavery in America
B. slavery with the death of many slaves
C. death with unhappiness
D. the past with death
E. all of the above
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C
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C
(D) The speaker equates the past or "by-gone times" with death.
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C
"A dead man, if he happen to have made a will, disposes of wealth
no longer his own; or, if he die intestate, it is distributed in
accordance with the notions of men much longer dead than he."
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1. Judging from the context, "intestate" probably means:
A. with no money
B. while residing in another state
C. without a will
D. suddenly
E. unmarried
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D
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D
(C) If a person dies intestate or without a will, his property is
distributed in accordance with laws made by "men much longer dead than he."
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D
"A dead man sits on all our judgement-seats; and living judges do
but search out and repeat his decisions. We read in dead men's books!
We laugh at dead men's jokes, and cry at dead men's pathos!"
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1. The "dead man" who sits in the judgment-seat is most likely:
A. a representation of traditional law
B. God
C. the victim in a murder trial
D. a cold, uncaring judge
E. the speaker's father
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E
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E
(A) The "dead man" is legal precedent which influences the decisions
of living judges.
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E
"We are sick of dead men's diseases, physical and moral, and die
of the same remedies with which dead doctors killed their patients!
We worship the living Deity according to dead men's forms and creeds."
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1. The speaker believes:
A. that God is dead
B. that the people alive at his time are innocent
C. that the present should be used for new medical research
D. that traditional religious ceremonies should be observed
E. none of the above
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F
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F
(E) is correct. The speaker believes that the past has no lessons for
the present.
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F
"Whatever we seek to do, of our own free motion, a dead man's icy
hand obstructs us! Turn our eyes to what point we may, a dead man's
white, immitigable face encounters them, and freezes our very heart!"
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1. In this and the preceding passages, the speaker uses the literary
device of:
A. apostrophy
B. alliteration
C. extended analogy
D. contrast
E. shock value
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G
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G
(C) Comparing the past to a dead man is an extended analogy. The speaker
refers to the past as a dead man whose omnipresence interferes with the
living.
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G
"And we must be dead ourselves before we can begin to have our
proper influence on our own world, which will then be no longer our
world, but the world of another generation, with which we shall have
no shadow of a right to interfere."
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1. The speaker believes all of the following except:
A. He cannot be properly effective during his lifetime.
B. The past impedes his freedom.
C. People should make careful plans for future generations.
D. He has no right to interfere in the world of the future.
E. His actions, too, will be a burden on future generations.
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2
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(C) The speaker does NOT believe we should make plans for future
generations.
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2. The best title for these passages, taken as a whole, would be:
A. On the Shoulders of Giants
B. Past, Present, and Future
C. The Terrible Burden of the Past
D. Looking Ahead
E. The Death of the Past
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H
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H
(C) All of the passages discuss the terrible burden the past imposes upon
the present.
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