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QuizMultiple Choice

Choosing Vocabulary — Unit test

Question 42 • English 11 A

Read this quotation from Chapter I of Nature.To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature.Which sentence from Nature best supports Emerson’s claim?

Answer
A
I am glad to the brink of fear.
B
Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece.
C
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
D
In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child.

Explanation

Emerson claims that few adults can truly see nature, implying that adults do not experience it with the openness of children. Choice C contrasts the adult, whose eye is merely illuminated by the sun, with the child, whose eye and heart are reached by it. This directly supports the idea that children perceive nature more fully.

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