Read the following passage and answer the question. Among them, quivering to and fro between gloom and splendor, appeared faces that would be seen next day
at the council board of the province, and others which, Sabbath after Sabbath, looked devoutly heavenward,
and benignantly over the crowded pews, from the holiest pulpits in the land.
What important theme in the story can you infer from this description of the people Goodman Brown sees in the forest?
the triumph of goodness over evil
the strength ofhe community
the strength of the individual
the difference between appearance and reality

Read this adapted excerpt from a famous poem by john keats. this poem is about a beautiful vase with intricate shapes and patterns. you, silent form, do tease us out of thought as does etemity: cold pastorall when old age shall this generation waste, you shall remain in the middle of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom you say "beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know what is the poet saying when he writes that "old age shall this generation waste"? the poet is expressing his dread of growing older the poet is mourning the changes he sees in his "generation." the poet is saying that beauty is illusionary and short-lived. the poet is saying that people don't live long; life is brief