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The author's current attitude towards writing is best described by which of the following quotes from the passage? correct answers "never realizing the irony was on me, that my theme was mostly an unconscious parable of the experience of writing..."
Suppose the author of this passage had gained ...
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The author's current attitude towards writing is best described by which of the following quotes
from the passage? correct answers "never realizing the irony was on me, that my theme was
mostly an unconscious parable of the experience of writing..."
Suppose the author of this passage had gained success by writing a series of autobiographical
essays featuring events and details from his own life. This would be most inconsistent with the
example set by which one of these authors mentioned in the passage? correct answers Eliot
Which of the following is/are mentioned in the passage as an aspect of a modern writing
aesthetic?
The individuality of the author should not overly color the writing.
The preparation for writing is more important than the act of writing.
Writing requires great reserves of information and intuition within a writer. correct answers I and
III only
Which if the following, if true, would most strengthen the author's point regarding Thomas Mann
in the second paragraph? correct answers The classical, Biblical, and mythological allusions
throughout Mann's books are much admired by modern literary critics.
Which of the following, if true, would most undermine the author's central argument about
coffee? correct answers Because of the addictive properties of caffeine, habitual coffee drinking
is often mistaken as pleasurable or desirable when in fact it is merely the result of satisfying
physiological cravings caused by periodic caffeine withdrawal.
Elsewhere the author writes: "The year 1919 awarded coffee one of its brightest honors. An
American general said that coffee shared with bread and bacon the distinction of being one of the
three nutritive essentials that helped win the World War for the Allies. So [coffee] has played a
not inconspicuous part in 'making the world safe for democracy.'" This statement most strongly
supports which of the following claims from the passage? correct answers Coffee is one of the
world's greatest adjuvant foods.
The passage suggests that coffee is consumed because:
it produces feelings of pleasure and well-being.
it is an alternative to alcohol.
there are no acceptable coffee-substitutes. correct answers I and III only
Interpreting Dr. Harvey W. Wiley's quote in the fourth paragraph in the context of the passage as
a whole, if the word "war" is representative of "coffee", then the phrase "be able to fight" in this
quote is most representative of which of the following? correct answers Produce the same mental
and physical effects as coffee.
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