uestion 21(Multiple Choice Worth 4 points)
MC)
Read the following excerpt from Memoirs and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson, then find the correct answer:
And all the while I was aware that this life of sea-bathing and sun-burning was for me but a holiday. In that year cannon were roaring for days together on French battlefields; and I wa
in my isle (I call it mine, after the use of lovers) and think upon the war, and the loudness of these far-away battles, and the pain of the men's wounds, and the weariness of their marc
And I would think too of that other war which is as old as mankind, and is indeed the life of man: the unsparing war, the grinding slavery of competition; the toil of seventy yea
dear-bought bread, precarious honour, the perils and pitfalls, and the poor rewards. It was a long look forward; the future summoned me as with trumpet calls, it warned me baw
with a voice of weeping and beseeching; and I thrilled and trembled on the brink of life, like a childish bather on the beach.
How does the line in bold demonstrate Stevenson's purpose?
O It describes people are cruel creatures.
O It describes the unfair price of food.
O It describes war as a kindness to all.
O It describes life as a kind of war.
Question 22(Multiple Choice Worth 3 points)
Question 1 (Answered)
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