Quiz 2 - reading questions
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rman melville's "redbum: his
1849. it describes the life of a
across the atlantic ocean
question 1 of 10
which choice best summarizes the passage?
a character faces a difficult situation and describes
the experience of confronting it.
he main-skysail, which is the fifth
a very small sail, and from the
cambric pocket-handkerchief.
arry still smaller sails, above the
scrapers, and cloud-rakers. but i
hem; a skysail seems high
dea of anything higher than that,
ks almost like tempting heaven,
d almost put the eyes of the stars
at very soon take the conceit out
a character reflects on a past experience in order to
inspire himself to action in the present.
a character prepares to take a significant action but
then decides not to undertake that action.
to loose the skysail, an old
id, “buttons, my boy, it's high
t's boy's business, buttons, to
a character undertakes an action but then questions
the rightness of his decision.
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