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RCMultiple Choice

Purpose and Format in “The Leader in the Mirror” — Cumulative exam

Question 11 • 26-27 Ignite English 12 NG KY-English Language Arts 12

Read the passage from "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles."My spirit is too weak—mortalityWeighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,And each imagined pinnacle and steepOf godlike hardship, tells me I must dieLike a sick eagle looking at the sky.Now, read the passage from "Ode on Intimations of Morality," another poem from the Romantic period.The rainbow comes and goes,And lovely is the rose;The moon doth with delightLook round her when the heavens are bare;Waters on a starry nightAre beautiful and fair;The sunshine is a glorious birth;But yet I know, where'er I go,That there hath past away a glory from the earth.

Answer
A
Life is bleak.
B
Life is precious.
C
Death is inevitable.
D
Death is an illusion.
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