Analyzing a Line of Reasoning in "Being a Woman"

Question 2 • FL-1001420-AP English Language and Composition Sem 1 - Flex

Which quotation best encapsulates the author’s line of reasoning in the passage?

Answer

"Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy."

"Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS."

"There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight."

"The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished."

Explanation

The author argues that Santa Claus is real in the sense that love, generosity, and devotion are real and shape people’s lives. Choice A states that reasoning directly, connecting Santa’s existence to the virtues that bring beauty and joy. The other quotations describe what the world would lose without Santa, rather than giving the author’s central argument.

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