Read this stanza from Allen Ginsberg’s "A Supermarket in California."What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.Why does the author most likely use free verse for this stanza?

The long-line structure serves as an introduction to the narrative.

The long-line structure provides background for the allusion.

The long-line structure imitates stream-of-conscious thought.

The long-line structure allows for predictable rhyme schemes.

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Read the excerpt from "Harrison Bergeron."He tried to think a little about the ballerinas. They weren’t really very good—no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. They were burdened with sash-weights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. George was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn’t be handicapped. This excerpt best illustrates Kurt Vonnegut’s message that

everyone in a society should have equal talent and beauty.

advances in technology should be closely monitored.

television viewing limits individual thought and creativity.

absolute equality prevents personal freedoms of expression.

Read the excerpt from Anthem.I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.Which best explains the philosophical concept reflected in the excerpt?

This excerpt reflects collectivism, because it reveals the narrator’s deep love for other individuals.

This excerpt reflects collectivism, because it reinforces the need for acceptance and brotherhood.

This excerpt reflects capitalism, because it suggests that love of others is unnecessary and unimportant.

This excerpt reflects capitalism, because it emphasizes an exchange based on free will.

Read the excerpt from Anthem.But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.Based on the philosophical concepts expressed in the excerpt, the narrator would most likely support a government that

ensures all of mankind is treated equally.

allows man to make his own decisions and live with the consequences.

interferes in the lives and economic activities of the individuals in a society.

regulates the economy and redistributes each man’s wealth.

Which line from “The Railroad Earth” best illustrates Jack Kerouac’s nonstandard or invented words?

But it was that beautiful cut of clouds I could always see above the little S.P. alley, puffs floating by from Oakland or the Gate of Marin to the north or San Jose south

or some of them I can now as I leave hear beginning to disfawdle to wake in their rooms and with their moans and yorks and scrapings

I'm going down the steps to work, glance to check time of watch with clerk cage clock.

And the Bible on my desk next to the peanut butter, the lettuce, the raisin bread, the crack in the plaster, the stiff-with-old dust lace drape now no longer laceable

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