4. Which of the following BEST describe the purpose of Fitzgerald's inclusion of the last two sentences in the excerpt on the previous page (detailing the drawbridge and the fact that the train always must stop
there)?
a. These details highlight the carelessness of society during the Roaring 20s.
b. These details demonstrate Nick's attitude toward this new society, because he does not want to
meet Tom's mistress Myrtle.
c. These details serve as foreshadowing for Nick's first mysterious meeting with his neighbor Gatsby
at the party he attends later on.
d. These details emphasize the contrast between the glamour of Long Island/NYC and the poverty of
the Valley of Ashes because the train stop is a reminder of the lower class.

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man