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This question is based on Literary Appreciation.
'Thomas Gradgrind, sir. A man who proceeds upon the principle that two is not to be talked into allowing for anything over.'
Charles Dickens, Hard Times
From the passage above, Thomas Gradgrind is
  • A. dogmatic
  • B. hostile
  • C. theoretical
  • D. eloguent
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This question is based on Literary Appreciation.

'Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.
He knew this was one of the many ways the General meditated, but the ecstasy in which he lay drifting seemed that of a man no longer of this world.'
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The General in His Labyrinth.
The master in the passage above is obviously in a state of

  • A. labyrinth
  • B. drowning
  • C. forgetfulness
  • D. trance
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This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea
The character 'boy' is used alongside 'the old Man' in the novel to demonstrate.

  • A. the humiliation that is in old age
  • B. man's refudeal to grow old
  • C. different types of characters in the story
  • D. the failing productivity that accompanies old age
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This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea
The skeleton of the marlin implies the

  • A. sharks' predatory inclination
  • B. futility of human struggle
  • C. old man's lack of faith
  • D. old man's incompetence in fishing
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This question is based on Ernest Hermingway's The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea epitomizes

  • A. the relationship between a man and a fish
  • B. the vain expectations of man
  • C. life on the high seas
  • D. a fulfilled life
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