| meaning of quations. multiple choice?
7.“He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.” Which of the following is the best translation of this entire quotation?a.The girl caused him to question his own happiness, which caused him to realize that it was false.b.Once the girl made him realize his joy was fake, there was no going back to the false happiness.c.The girl with all of the answers ran away, and he could not catch her to ask for help.d.The girl tore off his mask of truth, leaving him with empty lies.13. “When it was all over, he felt like a man who had been thrown from a cliff, whirled in a centrifuge, and spat out over a waterfall that fell and fell into emptiness and emptiness and never-quite-reached-bottom…”Which of the following would NOT be a possible meaning for “the bottom?”a.dystopiab.truthc.knowledged.happiness1 7. “We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam. Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry of the earth.”Which statement below best paraphrases the meaning of the quotation?a.People are like flowers and they sometimes are colorful like fireworks.b.Right now, people want to live and be happy, never to feel pain, even though pain is what makes us grow as people.c.Flowers require rain and dirt, and fireworks are made from chemistry.d.Flowers can sometimes be fed by other flowers instead of by photosynthesis.19. The presidential race between Winston Noble and Hubert Hoag was an example of:a.democracy in its pure, natural formb.propagandac.racismd.governmental manipulation
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