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PART FIVE: READINGS FOR WRITERS

Note: Suggested answers are provided here for the comprehension questions and the discussion questions that follow each of the seventeen reading selections. Numbers of relevant paragraphs from the selection follow reading comprehension answers and are shown in parentheses in the discussion answers.

Suggested Answers for “Three Passions”—Bertrand Russell

Note: The numbers in parentheses refer to relevant paragraphs in the selection.

Reading Comprehension Questions

1. d 2. a 3. d Answer a is too narrow; answer b is unsupported; answer c is too broad. 4. a Paragraph 1 5. b. Paragraph 2 6. False Paragraph 3 7. …show more content…

Reading Comprehension Questions

1. a 2. d 3. b Answers a, c, and d are too narrow. 4. a Answers b, c, and d are too narrow. 5. c Paragraph 6 6. True Paragraph 23 7. a Paragraph 5 8. b The entire incident with the Community Chest Fund shows Richard’s pride; see also paragraph 28. 9. b Richard’s teacher ignores his problems and humiliates him in front of the entire class; see paragraphs 5 through 26. 10. b Helene cries over Richard’s humiliation; see paragraph 23.

Structure and Technique

1. In order to impress Helene, Gregory brushed his hair, got a handkerchief, washed his socks and shirt every night, shoveled the snow off her walk, tried to make friends with her mother and aunts, and left money on her stoop. He describes those steps in detail because, besides demonstrating his devotion to Helene, they give a clear picture of Gregory’s poverty.

2. In paragraph 5, Gregory uses the metaphor that he was pregnant to suggest the effects of poverty on him—it gave him strange tastes, which pregnant people get. It also filled him (as pregnancy fills someone), but with negative things: poverty, dirt, “smells that made people turn away,” and so on.

In the second sentence of paragraph 7, Gregory uses the metaphor of a flying eagle to represent the movement of money. (A picture of an eagle is

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