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This extract if from 'The Leap' by Louise Erdrich.
Explanation:
It is about a blind mother who is surviving about half of the blindfold trapeze act, the Flying Avalons. The daughter says how she was saved by her mother thrice.
First she was saved when a tent pole cracked and fell on the town square. The father and mother gave her life. the other incident was when their house caught fire, her mother saved her.
The girl trusted her mother and was saved.
<span>The correct answer is: B: „Crime and Punishment“ is a
novel written by Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky was the Russian novelist,
essayist, journalist and philosopher, and one of the greatest writers in world
literature. He lived in 19th century, and was one of the most important writers
of Realism. Crime and Punishment is one of his best and most popular works – it
is a book about young student Rodeon Raskolnikov, who decides to kill an old
and evil woman, so he could take her money and use it for a higher purpose.
But, when he does that, he deals with the mental anguish and moral dilemmas, which
makes him to confess his crime.</span>
Answer:
“Jundi Shapur was built in what is now Iran.”
“Greek scholars moved to Jundi Shapur.”
“The school created the very first teaching hospital in the world.”
Explanation:
The main idea of this passage is that Jundi Shapur was one of the most important institutions of its time, and a place where the world's knowledge was collected and expanded upon. The details that support this idea are the fact that Jundi Shapur was built in Iran (located at the intersection of various great civilizations), that Greek scholars moved there (carrying their knowledge with them) and that the school created the first teaching hospital in the world.
