Passage 2 - Crime and Punishment
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- Q1The passage is written from which narrative point of viewthird person omniscientthird person limitedfirst person pluralfirst person singular30s
- Q2The last sentence of the second paragraph (9-10)characterizes the landladyis speculationis redundantprovides clarification30s
- Q3The third paragraph differs from the second in thatthe second paragraph does not contain dependent clausesthe second paragraph does not contain simple sentencesthe tone is differentthe third paragraph focuses on characterizing the protagonist's emotional state30s
- Q4What is the "axiom" the protagonist refers to in line 26?the men who let things slip away are cowardsthat a man's timidity causes him to squander opportunitieshis conjecture that doing nothing causes him to chatterhis conjecture that chatter prevents him from doing things30s
- Q5The two sentences in lines 28-29 areaxiomaticchiastichyperbolicveracious30s
- Q6The words "there, "that", and "It" in line 31 do all of the following exceptcharacterize the protagonist's reluctance and fearelucidate the protagonist's desiresprovoke curiositycreate a sense of mystery30s
- Q7In the final paragraph, a contrast is established betweencleanliness and filthgood and evilbeauty and uglinessrich and poor30s
- Q8The protagonist is described as all of the following exceptproudpetulantintrepiddestitute30s
- Q9The narrator's tone can best be described asobservantspeculativeintrusivecurious30s