ENG303A Fall 2022 Pre test
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Complete the Semester Pre-Test below. Be careful to read each question and your answer options thoroughly before you answer. NOTE: Outside help or assistance is not allowed. Do your best. If you're not sure of an answer, give your best guess!
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Read the excerpt from "Paper Pills" in Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson.He was an old man with a white beard and huge nose and hands. Long before the time during which we will know him, he was a doctor and drove a jaded white horse from house to house through the streets of Winesburg. Later he married a girl who had money. She had been left a large fertile farm when her father died. The girl was quiet, tall, and dark, and to many people she seemed very beautiful. Everyone in Winesburg wondered why she married the doctor. Within a year after the marriage, she died.The knuckles of the doctor’s hands were extraordinarily large. When the hands were closed they looked like clusters of unpainted wooden balls as large as walnuts fastened together by steel rods. He smoked a cob pipe and after his wife’s death sat all day in his empty office close by a window that was covered with cobwebs. He never opened the window. Once on a hot day in August, he tried but found it stuck fast and after that he forgot all about it.Winesburg had forgotten the old man, but in Doctor Reefy there were the seeds of something very fine. Alone in his musty office in the Heffner Block above the Paris Dry Goods Company’s store, he worked ceaselessly, building up something that he himself destroyed. Little pyramids of truth he erected and after erecting knocked them down again that he might have the truths to erect other pyramids.Doctor Reefy was a tall man who had worn one suit of clothes for ten years. It was frayed at the sleeves and little holes had appeared at the knees and elbows. In the office he wore also a linen duster with huge pockets into which he continually stuffed scraps of paper. After some weeks the scraps of paper became little hard round balls, and when the pockets were filled he dumped them out upon the floor. For ten years he had but one friend, another old man named John Spaniard who owned a tree nursery. Sometimes, in a playful mood, old Doctor Reefy took from his pockets a handful of the paper balls and threw them at the nursery man. "That is to confound you, you blathering old sentimentalist,” he cried, shaking with laughter.
Read the sentence from "Paper Pills" by Sherwood Anderson."That is to confound you, you blathering old sentimentalist,” he cried, shaking with
laughter.
In this sentence "confound" most nearly means __________.
Read the excerpt from "Paper Pills" in Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson.
He was an old man with a white beard and huge nose and hands. Long before the time during which we will know him, he was a doctor and drove a jaded white horse from house to house through the streets of Winesburg. Later he married a girl who had money. She had been left a large fertile farm when her father died. The girl was quiet, tall, and dark, and to many people she seemed very beautiful. Everyone in Winesburg wondered why she married the doctor. Within a year after the marriage, she died.
The knuckles of the doctor’s hands were extraordinarily large. When the hands were closed they looked like clusters of unpainted wooden balls as large as walnuts fastened together by steel rods. He smoked a cob pipe and after his wife’s death sat all day in his empty office close by a window that was covered with cobwebs. He never opened the window. Once on a hot day in August, he tried but found it stuck fast and after that he forgot all about it.
Winesburg had forgotten the old man, but in Doctor Reefy there were the seeds of something very fine. Alone in his musty office in the Heffner Block above the Paris Dry Goods Company’s store, he worked ceaselessly, building up something that he himself destroyed. Little pyramids of truth he erected and after erecting knocked them down again that he might have the truths to erect other pyramids.
Doctor Reefy was a tall man who had worn one suit of clothes for ten years. It was frayed at the sleeves and little holes had appeared at the knees and elbows. In the office he wore also a linen duster with huge pockets into which he continually stuffed scraps of paper. After some weeks the scraps of paper became little hard round balls, and when the pockets were filled he dumped them out upon the floor. For ten years he had but one friend, another old man named John Spaniard who owned a tree nursery. Sometimes, in a playful mood, old Doctor Reefy took from his pockets a handful of the paper balls and threw them at the nursery man. "That is to confound you, you blathering old sentimentalist,” he cried, shaking with laughter.
Read the sentence from "Paper Pills" by Sherwood Anderson.
"That is to confound you, you blathering old sentimentalist,” he cried, shaking with laughter.
In this sentence "confound" most nearly means __________.
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Read the excerpt from "Paper Pills" in Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson.He was an old man with a white beard and huge nose and hands. Long before the time during which we will know him, he was a doctor and drove a jaded white horse from house to house through the streets of Winesburg. Later he married a girl who had money. She had been left a large fertile farm when her father died. The girl was quiet, tall, and dark, and to many people she seemed very beautiful. Everyone in Winesburg wondered why she married the doctor. Within a year after the marriage, she died.The knuckles of the doctor’s hands were extraordinarily large. When the hands were closed they looked like clusters of unpainted wooden balls as large as walnuts fastened together by steel rods. He smoked a cob pipe and after his wife’s death sat all day in his empty office close by a window that was covered with cobwebs. He never opened the window. Once on a hot day in August, he tried but found it stuck fast and after that he forgot all about it.Winesburg had forgotten the old man, but in Doctor Reefy there were the seeds of something very fine. Alone in his musty office in the Heffner Block above the Paris Dry Goods Company’s store, he worked ceaselessly, building up something that he himself destroyed. Little pyramids of truth he erected and after erecting knocked them down again that he might have the truths to erect other pyramids.Doctor Reefy was a tall man who had worn one suit of clothes for ten years. It was frayed at the sleeves and little holes had appeared at the knees and elbows. In the office he wore also a linen duster with huge pockets into which he continually stuffed scraps of paper. After some weeks the scraps of paper became little hard round balls, and when the pockets were filled he dumped them out upon the floor. For ten years he had but one friend, another old man named John Spaniard who owned a tree nursery. Sometimes, in a playful mood, old Doctor Reefy took from his pockets a handful of the paper balls and threw them at the nursery man. "That is to confound you, you blathering old sentimentalist,” he cried, shaking with laughter.
When the narrator says "in Doctor Reefy there were the seeds of something very fine," he most likely means that Dr. Reefy __________.
Read the excerpt from "Paper Pills" in Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson.
He was an old man with a white beard and huge nose and hands. Long before the time during which we will know him, he was a doctor and drove a jaded white horse from house to house through the streets of Winesburg. Later he married a girl who had money. She had been left a large fertile farm when her father died. The girl was quiet, tall, and dark, and to many people she seemed very beautiful. Everyone in Winesburg wondered why she married the doctor. Within a year after the marriage, she died.
The knuckles of the doctor’s hands were extraordinarily large. When the hands were closed they looked like clusters of unpainted wooden balls as large as walnuts fastened together by steel rods. He smoked a cob pipe and after his wife’s death sat all day in his empty office close by a window that was covered with cobwebs. He never opened the window. Once on a hot day in August, he tried but found it stuck fast and after that he forgot all about it.
Winesburg had forgotten the old man, but in Doctor Reefy there were the seeds of something very fine. Alone in his musty office in the Heffner Block above the Paris Dry Goods Company’s store, he worked ceaselessly, building up something that he himself destroyed. Little pyramids of truth he erected and after erecting knocked them down again that he might have the truths to erect other pyramids.
Doctor Reefy was a tall man who had worn one suit of clothes for ten years. It was frayed at the sleeves and little holes had appeared at the knees and elbows. In the office he wore also a linen duster with huge pockets into which he continually stuffed scraps of paper. After some weeks the scraps of paper became little hard round balls, and when the pockets were filled he dumped them out upon the floor. For ten years he had but one friend, another old man named John Spaniard who owned a tree nursery. Sometimes, in a playful mood, old Doctor Reefy took from his pockets a handful of the paper balls and threw them at the nursery man. "That is to confound you, you blathering old sentimentalist,” he cried, shaking with laughter.
When the narrator says "in Doctor Reefy there were the seeds of something very fine," he most likely means that Dr. Reefy __________.
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Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence.Thanks to the twins' skillful __________, Aunt Phyllis never suspected the surprise party they threw for her.
Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence.
Thanks to the twins' skillful __________, Aunt Phyllis never suspected the surprise party they threw for her.
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Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence.Unlike the lighthearted __________ of her youth, Rosalind's adulthood proved to be full of frustration and constant __________.
Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence.
Unlike the lighthearted __________ of her youth, Rosalind's adulthood proved to be full of frustration and constant __________.
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Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence.Both __________ and __________, the abandoned garden survived the bleak winter and produced an abundance of flowers the following spring.
Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence.
Both __________ and __________, the abandoned garden survived the bleak winter and produced an abundance of flowers the following spring.
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The sentence provided may contain a grammar or usage error. Read the sentence, and then identify its error, if there is one, by choosing the appropriate underlined word or phrase.If you'd answered my question about geometry correct, I might have believed that you were a mathematician.
The sentence provided may contain a grammar or usage error. Read the sentence, and then identify its error, if there is one, by choosing the appropriate underlined word or phrase.
If you'd answered my question about geometry correct, I might have believed that you were a mathematician.
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Read the sentence and identify its error, if there is one.The last time we visited this park, you said that there were lots of fish in the pond.
Read the sentence and identify its error, if there is one.
The last time we visited this park, you said that there were lots of fish in the pond.
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Identify the best way to correct or improve the sentence.Whenever I feel anxious, I take a long walk in the garden and returned feeling much more relaxed.
Identify the best way to correct or improve the sentence.
Whenever I feel anxious, I take a long walk in the garden and returned feeling much more relaxed.
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Read the passage "George Washington Carver" by Gloria Van Anson.George Washington Carver, a highly accomplished scientist and a widely respected educator, he was born into slavery in 1864 in Missouri. When slavery ended, Carver moved to Kansas, which he went to high school in. After graduating, Carver attended Iowa State University. The university is located in Ames, Iowa. There, he became the school’s first African-American student, and studied agricultural science and received a bachelor’s degree in 1894. Carver earned a master’s degree from Iowa State in 1896 and was to become the school’s first African-American teacher.Soon after his teaching career began at Iowa State, however, Carver decided to switch jobs and began working at Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute. He was a teacher and a researcher. At Tuskegee, the peanut was the focus of Carver’s attention and interest. He felt it was a crop that might be used more in order to reduce the reliance of southern farmers on cotton. Carver eventually discovered more than 100 products that could be made from peanuts, including many dyes and flours. Carver also created a great many products from sweet potatoes.
In context, which is the best version of the underlined portion of this sentence?George Washington Carver, a highly accomplished scientist and a widely respected educator, he was born into slavery in 1864 in Missouri.
Read the passage "George Washington Carver" by Gloria Van Anson.
George Washington Carver, a highly accomplished scientist and a widely respected educator, he was born into slavery in 1864 in Missouri. When slavery ended, Carver moved to Kansas, which he went to high school in. After graduating, Carver attended Iowa State University. The university is located in Ames, Iowa. There, he became the school’s first African-American student, and studied agricultural science and received a bachelor’s degree in 1894. Carver earned a master’s degree from Iowa State in 1896 and was to become the school’s first African-American teacher.
Soon after his teaching career began at Iowa State, however, Carver decided to switch jobs and began working at Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute. He was a teacher and a researcher. At Tuskegee, the peanut was the focus of Carver’s attention and interest. He felt it was a crop that might be used more in order to reduce the reliance of southern farmers on cotton. Carver eventually discovered more than 100 products that could be made from peanuts, including many dyes and flours. Carver also created a great many products from sweet potatoes.
In context, which is the best version of the underlined portion of this sentence?
George Washington Carver, a highly accomplished scientist and a widely respected educator, he was born into slavery in 1864 in Missouri.
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In context, which is the best version of the underlined portion of this sentence?There, he became the school's first African-American student, and studied agricultural science and received a bachelor's degree in 1894.
In context, which is the best version of the underlined portion of this sentence?
There, he became the school's first African-American student, and studied agricultural science and received a bachelor's degree in 1894.
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Read the passage.from The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson BurnettThere are many dreary and dingy rows of ugly houses in certain parts of London, but there certainly could not be any row more ugly or dingier than Philibert Place. There were stories that it had once been more attractive, but that had been so long ago that no one remembered the time. It stood back in its gloomy, narrow strips of uncared-for, smoky gardens, whose broken iron railings were supposed to protect it from the surging traffic of a road which was always roaring with the rattle of busses, cabs, drays, and vans, and the passing of people who were shabbily dressed and looked as if they were either going to hard work or coming from it, or hurrying to see if they could find some of it to do to keep themselves from going hungry.The brick fronts of the houses were blackened with smoke, their windows were nearly all dirty and hung with dingy curtains, or had no curtains at all; the strips of ground, which had once been intended to grow flowers in, had been trodden down into bare earth in which even weeds had forgotten to grow. One of them was used as a stone-cutter's yard, and cheap monuments, crosses, and slates were set out for sale, bearing inscriptions beginning with "Sacred to the Memory of." Another had piles of old lumber in it, another exhibited second-hand furniture, chairs with unsteady legs, sofas with horsehair stuffing bulging out of holes in their covering, mirrors with blotches or cracks in them. The insides of the houses were as gloomy as the outside. They were all exactly alike. In each a dark entrance passage led to narrow stairs going up to bedrooms, and to narrow steps going down to a basement kitchen. The back bedroom looked out on small, sooty, flagged yards, where thin cats quarreled, or sat on the coping of the brick walls hoping that sometime they might feel the sun; the front rooms looked over the noisy road, and through their windows came the roar and rattle of it. It was shabby and cheerless on the brightest days, and on foggy or rainy ones it was the most forlorn place in London.At least that was what one boy thought as he stood near the iron railings watching the passers-by on the morning on which this story begins, which was also the morning after he had been brought by his father to live as a lodger in the back sitting-room of the house No. 7.
Read the passage.
from The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett
There are many dreary and dingy rows of ugly houses in certain parts of London, but there certainly could not be any row more ugly or dingier than Philibert Place. There were stories that it had once been more attractive, but that had been so long ago that no one remembered the time. It stood back in its gloomy, narrow strips of uncared-for, smoky gardens, whose broken iron railings were supposed to protect it from the surging traffic of a road which was always roaring with the rattle of busses, cabs, drays, and vans, and the passing of people who were shabbily dressed and looked as if they were either going to hard work or coming from it, or hurrying to see if they could find some of it to do to keep themselves from going hungry.The brick fronts of the houses were blackened with smoke, their windows were nearly all dirty and hung with dingy curtains, or had no curtains at all; the strips of ground, which had once been intended to grow flowers in, had been trodden down into bare earth in which even weeds had forgotten to grow. One of them was used as a stone-cutter's yard, and cheap monuments, crosses, and slates were set out for sale, bearing inscriptions beginning with "Sacred to the Memory of." Another had piles of old lumber in it, another exhibited second-hand furniture, chairs with unsteady legs, sofas with horsehair stuffing bulging out of holes in their covering, mirrors with blotches or cracks in them. The insides of the houses were as gloomy as the outside. They were all exactly alike. In each a dark entrance passage led to narrow stairs going up to bedrooms, and to narrow steps going down to a basement kitchen. The back bedroom looked out on small, sooty, flagged yards, where thin cats quarreled, or sat on the coping of the brick walls hoping that sometime they might feel the sun; the front rooms looked over the noisy road, and through their windows came the roar and rattle of it. It was shabby and cheerless on the brightest days, and on foggy or rainy ones it was the most forlorn place in London.
At least that was what one boy thought as he stood near the iron railings watching the passers-by on the morning on which this story begins, which was also the morning after he had been brought by his father to live as a lodger in the back sitting-room of the house No. 7.
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Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence.Although the popular candidate received __________ from most of her constituency, there were still those who __________ her because of a past mistake in her personal finances.
Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence.
Although the popular candidate received __________ from most of her constituency, there were still those who __________ her because of a past mistake in her personal finances.
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Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence.The elderly woman was grateful when the __________ mail carrier helped her cross the street during the rainstorm.
Choose the word or words that best complete the sentence.
The elderly woman was grateful when the __________ mail carrier helped her cross the street during the rainstorm.
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Read the sentence, and then identify its error by selecting the appropriate answer choice.It can be a real challenge to make a lunch that are both healthy and tasty.
Read the sentence, and then identify its error by selecting the appropriate answer choice.
It can be a real challenge to make a lunch that are both healthy and tasty.
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Read the sentence, and then identify its error by selecting the appropriate answer choice.The audience could not get a good view of the actor what won the award for comedy.
Read the sentence, and then identify its error by selecting the appropriate answer choice.
The audience could not get a good view of the actor what won the award for comedy.
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Read the sentence, and decide whether the underlined portion contains a mistake. If so, identify the best way to correct or improve the sentence by choosing the appropriate suggestion from the answer choices provided. If the underlined portion requires no correction or improvement, choose no improvement or correction is required.
On my vacation, I often woke up early and take a walk on the beach before the weather got hot.
Read the sentence, and decide whether the underlined portion contains a mistake. If so, identify the best way to correct or improve the sentence by choosing the appropriate suggestion from the answer choices provided. If the underlined portion requires no correction or improvement, choose no improvement or correction is required.
On my vacation, I often woke up early and take a walk on the beach before the weather got hot.
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Read the sentence, and decide whether the underlined portion contains a mistake.The attorney planned to settle the case out of court, which was a relief to everyone involved in the tragedy.
Read the sentence, and decide whether the underlined portion contains a mistake.
The attorney planned to settle the case out of court, which was a relief to everyone involved in the tragedy.
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Read the sentence, and decide whether the underlined portion contains a mistake.To do some yoga is a fantastic way to build body muscle while also relaxing.
Read the sentence, and decide whether the underlined portion contains a mistake.
To do some yoga is a fantastic way to build body muscle while also relaxing.
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Read the passage.“Tale of Two Cities: A Report” by Gloria Van Anson
(1) A Tale of Two Cities, the second of only two historical novels written by Charles Dickens, the novel spans action in the cities of London and Paris during the years 1775–1793. (2) These were the years leading up to and also including the years of the French Revolution.
(3) The novel begins with some famous words. (4) They are: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” (5) Dickens sets the stage for the extremes the novel reveals, both the extreme lavishness of the aristocracy and the poverty and desperation of the peasantry. (6) Throughout the novel, individual characters come to represent these great social forces.
(7) Dickens builds the growing tension between the aristocracy and the peasants as the characters are led toward what seems an inevitable end. (8) Juxtaposed against all the suffering and hatred amongst the people and within society is the final, and ultimate, sacrificial act of Sydney Carton. (9) He gives his life so that the husband of the woman he loves can live. (10) As he goes to the guillotine, Carton leaves the reader this moving statement: “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
(11) At the center of the novel are several secrets that are revealed over time, including the true nature of some characters’ identities. (12) He also explores the presence of secrets within every human heart.
(13) As always, Dickens’s plots are full of intricate and complex detail, which are important to follow in order to understand the final choices of this great English novel.
In context, which is the best version of the underlined portion of sentence 1 (reprinted below)?A Tale of Two Cities, the second of only two historical novels written by Charles Dickens, the novel spans action in the cities of London and Paris during the years 1775–1793.
Read the passage.
“Tale of Two Cities: A Report” by Gloria Van Anson
(1) A Tale of Two Cities, the second of only two historical novels written by Charles Dickens, the novel spans action in the cities of London and Paris during the years 1775–1793. (2) These were the years leading up to and also including the years of the French Revolution.
(3) The novel begins with some famous words. (4) They are: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” (5) Dickens sets the stage for the extremes the novel reveals, both the extreme lavishness of the aristocracy and the poverty and desperation of the peasantry. (6) Throughout the novel, individual characters come to represent these great social forces.
(7) Dickens builds the growing tension between the aristocracy and the peasants as the characters are led toward what seems an inevitable end. (8) Juxtaposed against all the suffering and hatred amongst the people and within society is the final, and ultimate, sacrificial act of Sydney Carton. (9) He gives his life so that the husband of the woman he loves can live. (10) As he goes to the guillotine, Carton leaves the reader this moving statement: “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
(11) At the center of the novel are several secrets that are revealed over time, including the true nature of some characters’ identities. (12) He also explores the presence of secrets within every human heart.
(13) As always, Dickens’s plots are full of intricate and complex detail, which are important to follow in order to understand the final choices of this great English novel.
In context, which is the best version of the underlined portion of sentence 1 (reprinted below)?
A Tale of Two Cities, the second of only two historical novels written by Charles Dickens, the novel spans action in the cities of London and Paris during the years 1775–1793.
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Read the passage.“Tale of Two Cities: A Report” by Gloria Van Anson(1) A Tale of Two Cities, the second of only two historical novels written by Charles Dickens, the novel spans action in the cities of London and Paris during the years 1775–1793. (2) These were the years leading up to and also including the years of the French Revolution.
(3) The novel begins with some famous words. (4) They are: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” (5) Dickens sets the stage for the extremes the novel reveals, both the extreme lavishness of the aristocracy and the poverty and desperation of the peasantry. (6)
Throughout the novel, individual characters come to represent these great social forces.(7) Dickens builds the growing tension between the aristocracy and the peasants as the characters are led toward what seems an inevitable end. (8) Juxtaposed against all the suffering and hatred amongst the people and within society is the final, and ultimate, sacrificial act of Sydney Carton. (9) He gives his life so that the husband of the woman he loves can live. (10) As he goes to the guillotine, Carton leaves the reader this moving statement: “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
(11) At the center of the novel are several secrets that are revealed over time, including the true nature of some characters’ identities. (12) He also explores the presence of secrets within every human heart.
(13) As always, Dickens’s plots are full of intricate and complex detail, which are important to follow in order to understand the final choices of this great English novel.
Which of the following would be a logical insertion at the beginning of sentence 8?
Read the passage.
“Tale of Two Cities: A Report” by Gloria Van Anson
(1) A Tale of Two Cities, the second of only two historical novels written by Charles Dickens, the novel spans action in the cities of London and Paris during the years 1775–1793. (2) These were the years leading up to and also including the years of the French Revolution.
(3) The novel begins with some famous words. (4) They are: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” (5) Dickens sets the stage for the extremes the novel reveals, both the extreme lavishness of the aristocracy and the poverty and desperation of the peasantry. (6)
Throughout the novel, individual characters come to represent these great social forces.
(7) Dickens builds the growing tension between the aristocracy and the peasants as the characters are led toward what seems an inevitable end. (8) Juxtaposed against all the suffering and hatred amongst the people and within society is the final, and ultimate, sacrificial act of Sydney Carton. (9) He gives his life so that the husband of the woman he loves can live. (10) As he goes to the guillotine, Carton leaves the reader this moving statement: “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
(11) At the center of the novel are several secrets that are revealed over time, including the true nature of some characters’ identities. (12) He also explores the presence of secrets within every human heart.
(13) As always, Dickens’s plots are full of intricate and complex detail, which are important to follow in order to understand the final choices of this great English novel.
Which of the following would be a logical insertion at the beginning of sentence 8?