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UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

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Each profession, intellectual or manual, deserves consideration, whether it requires painful physical effort or manual dexterity, wide knowledge or the patience of an ant. Ours, like that of the doctor, does not allow for any mistake. You don't joke with life, and life is both body and mind. To warp a soul is as much a sacrilege as murder. Teachers _ at kindergarten level, as at university level _ form a noble army accomplishing daily feats, never praised, never decorated. An army forever on the move, forever vigilant: an army without drums, without gleaming uniforms. This army, thwarting traps and snares, everywhere plants the flag of knowledge and morality.

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''The flag of knowledge and morality'' illustrates

  • A. euphemism
  • B. litotes
  • C. metaphor
  • D. metonymy
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Here stood our ancestral home
The crumbling wall marks the spot
Here a sheep was led to the slaughter
To appease the goods and atone
For fauilts which our destiny
Has blossomed into crimes
There my cursed father once stood
And shouted to us, his children
To come back from our play
To our evening meal and sleep.

737

The mood of the poem is

  • A. hopeful
  • B. joyful
  • C. nostalgic
  • D. exciting
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738

The sheep was led to the slaughter

  • A. to prepare their evening meal
  • B. because it was a troublesome sheep
  • C. because their father was a butcher
  • D. as a sacrifice to their gods
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''To appease the gods''...''implies

  • A. seeking the favour of the gods
  • B. offering meals to the gods
  • C. accusing the gods for their misfortune
  • D. reciting incantations to the gods
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740

The underlined means that

  • A. they were living in a house with a high wall
  • B. their building is no longer where it used to be
  • C. the children had caused the wall to crumble
  • D. their father made them pull down the wall
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