Read the following passage:I do think my parents grew to love one another, in a way. Their marriage was not their choice, so they couldn't understand why I would choose to marry Maria. She was not the same religion or social standing in their eyes, so where was the appeal? The value they placed on love was far below that of tradition, so I felt it was useless to try to explain.How could the author best resolve this situation to create a feeling of satisfaction?A.The narrator's parents forbid him to see Maria and arrange a marriage for him.B.The narrator runs off with Maria to get married and has no further contact with his parents.C.Maria confronts the parents' preconceptions, and they come to realize that she is a wonderful person.D.The narrator makes several attempts to include Maria in his family's culture.

I do think my parents grew to love one another, in a way. Their marriage was not their choice, so they couldn't understand why I would choose to marry Maria. She was not the same religion or social standing in their eyes, so where was the appeal? The value they placed on love was far below that of tradition, so I felt it was useless to try to explain.Which best explains how this passage develops the narrator's external conflict?A.It implies that the narrator's parents did not always have a deep, true love for each other.B.It foreshadows the problems that Maria will encounter with the narrator's parents.C.It explores the root of the narrator's disagreement with his parents.D.It illustrates the narrator's struggle to embrace his own heritage.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Read the following passage:I knew how to act and the right things to say, but I felt like a phony. I really cared about Lilly and I wanted her parents to like me, but this world was so different from mine. I wasn't comfortable in these clothes or around their friends. I felt like they could see right through me — like they knew where I came from and who my parents were.Which best explains how this passage develops the narrator's internal conflict?A.It explores the narrator's feelings about choosing between his family and his future.B.It shows that he is questioning the seriousness of his relationship with Lilly.C.It expresses the tension between who the narrator is and who he is pretending to be.D.It implies that Lilly's parents and their friends are not happy with her relationship with the narrator.

Which of the following statements is TRUE about the short story How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife?Group of answer choicesBaldo chose the longer and more challenging route on their journey home to test Maria's adaptability to life in the countryside.During their visit to the village, Maria recounted the problems of their marriage.Maria, having grown up in the countryside, was already familiar and comfortable with rural life.Maria harboured prejudices about rural areas, which influenced her perception as she visited Leon's family.

Direction: Read the passage given below and answer the following questions.Some parents urge their children to be the best in everything they do. They push them to be the best athlete, and the best scholar, and the best musician, and so on. Other parents urge their children to pursue whatever they are best at, whether it be athletics, academics or music. Some parents push their children to try their best. Still, others try hard not to push their children to be the best or even to try to be their best, because they worry about the psychological damage that such messages might cause. But, most parents love their children, and however they raise them, they are trying the best they can on their behalf. After all, most parents genuinely want what is best for their children – they have different conceptions of what that requires.In seeking what is best for their children, most parents are implicitly buying into what has been the dominant view of individual rationality, at least in the West, since the time of the Greeks. On this conception, what it is to be rational is to act so as to maximize the overall quality of one’s life over the course of one’s life – that is, a rational agent chooses whatever options will make her life, as a whole, go as well as possible. The United States Army’s advertising slogan ‘Be All You Can Be’ taps into this picture of what it is for an individual agent to be rational.Built into the standard conception of rationality are two fundamental assumptions. The first is that there is a best way for any life to be. The second is a more technical assumption – I’ll call it the Axiom of Transitivity for Better Than – which holds that for any three choices, if the first option is better than the second, and the second option is better than the third, then the first option must be better than the third.‘The Axiom of Transitivity for Better Than’ generates a decision procedure for identifying the best of any finite set of options. Compare the two at a time. If the first is better, throw the second out. Then compare the third with the first. If the third is better, throw the first out. Proceed in this way, always choosing the best of each set of two alternatives. On this basis, if the Axiom of Transitivity for Better Than is true, we can determine the best of any finite set of n options, on the basis of n-1 pairwise comparisons.Many people have challenged the first assumption in one of four ways. Some have pointed out that some options might be equally good, so there is no single best option. Others have suggested that some alternatives might be only roughly comparable, or on a par. On this view, two alternatives could be in the same ballpark, say the genius of Einstein or Mozart, or a legal career versus an academic career, without one being better than the other, or their being exactly equally good. Still, others have suggested that in some rare cases two alternatives can be completely incomparable. And finally, some have noted that among an infinite number of possibilities, there might be no best one, just as there is no largest number in the infinite sequence 1, 2, 3, 4, …HideWhat is the author’s tone when he is talking about how parents behave in the first two paragraphs?FactualIronicalCriticalSatirical

Which of the following statements BEST captures the moral lesson of the story "Footnote to Youth"?Group of answer choicesThe story serves as a cautionary tale, emphasizing the significance of making informed and thoughtful decisions in matters of marriage and adulthood.The story serves as a cautionary tale, emphasizing the importance of fostering and nurturing relationships in marriage for both partners.The story serves as a reminder to the younger generation that true love necessitates the commitment of marriage.The story serves as a reminder that loving someone does not necessarily mean we should marry them.