Excerpt from: Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
THERE was no use in arguing with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with me. But the result was just the same. I never could more than get one knotty thing learned before another presented itself. Now I had often seen pilots gazing at the water and pretending to read it as if it were a book; but it was a book that told me nothing. A time came at last, however, when Mr. Bixby seemed to think me far enough advanced to bear a lesson on water-reading. So he began—
What conclusion can you make from the first paragraph?
A) Mr. Bixby dislikes the narrator.
B) The narrator is angry with Mr. Bixby.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
D) Mr. Bixby thinks the narrator is stubborn.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
Answer:
banned from church and from communicating with other followers.
a) Ronaldo is <u>a</u><u> </u> famous footballer.
b) That was <u>an</u><u> </u> important day in history.
c) He can play <u>the</u><u> </u> guitar well.
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The correct answer is B. Wiesel uses rhetorical questions to encourage the audience to continue to think about his ideas
Explanation:
The excerpt presented belongs to a speech known as "the Perils of Indifference" by Elie Wiesel who was a survivor of the Holocaust and an important author in the topic. In the excerpt presented, Wiesel refers to the indifference and the importance of learning from the past.
To explain this, the main technique Wiesel uses is rhetorical questions that are questions not intended to be answered by the audience but that encourages the audience to reflect and think about the ideas. For example, the rhetorical question "Have we really learned from our experiences? " makes the audience think about whether atrocities such as the Holocaust can occur again or the question "Has the human being become less indifferent and more human?" that questions the indifference in human societies.
Answer:
Faber believes that Montag died when the listening device stopped transmitting.
Explanation:
Its simple, the news reported that they were looking for Montag and sent hounds/helicopters (it is not d). Faber is very aware of the punishment for owning books, he would no the surprised when Montag has been there before (it is not b). I have taken a test before with this question (it is not a). That leaves us with c.
