Select the correct answer.Read the excerpt from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.And now, dear Margaret, do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose? My life might have been passed in ease and luxury, but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path. Oh, that some encouraging voice would answer in the affirmative! My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed. I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude: I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing.Which choice best summarizes the excerpt? A. The narrator tells Margaret that he goes back and forth between hope and depression, and there may be a lot of emergencies to deal with. Therefore, he needs some encouragement from her. B. The narrator informs Margaret that he made the better choice to travel rather than to stay at home in comfort. But the crew is very depressed, which is making him also very depressed. C. The narrator complains to Margaret that his choice to travel means he no longer lives a life of comfort. Moreover, he must also keep everyone else’s spirits up along with his own. D. The narrator tells Margaret that despite living a life of luxury, he still prefers this difficult voyage. But he needs encouragement because he must keep others encouraged as well as himself.

Select the correct texts in the passage.Which two details are most important to include in a summary of the excerpt?excerpt from Frankensteinby Mary ShellyThese reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter, and I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. This expedition has been the favorite dream of my early years. I have read with ardor the accounts of the various voyages which have been made in the prospect of arriving at the North Pacific Ocean through the seas which surround the pole. You may remember that a history of all the voyages made for purposes of discovery composed the whole of our good Uncle Thomas’ library. My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading. These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them increased that regret which I had felt, as a child, on learning that my father’s dying injunction had forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life.

Question 21 of 24Read the following excerpt from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which is narrated by Dr. Frankenstein:[B]ut now, for the first time the wickedness of my promise burst upon me; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race.Which phrase from the passage best supports the theme that humans possess the ability to be monstrous?A.wickedness of my promiseB.shuddered to thinkC.peace at the priceD.whole human race

Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows like harmony in music; there is a dark inscrutable workmanship that reconciles discordant elements, makes them cling together. In one society. How strange that all. The terrors, pains, and early miseries, regrets, vexations, lassitudes interfused within my mind, should e’er have borne a part, and that a needful part, in making up. The calm existence that is mine when I am worthy of myself! Praise to the end!According to the poet, one can be worthy of oneself only when one has experienced the terrors and the pains of life and has grown above them to achieve a state of calmness.All the discordant elements in the poet’s life have gone into making him what he is now, and the calmness that he feels in the present is only because of having experienced the terrors in the past; this is what has made him a worthy human being.The mind fuses the past and the present in such a way that the calmness the poet feels at the moment is in a way amnesiac of the past; it is only because of this forgetfulness of the terrors of the past that the poet can be calm in the present. Dust we are and unto dust we will return; in the meanwhile, one must undergo all the pains and travails of life in order to become a worthy human being-- only then can one achieve a praiseworthy end.

Question 1 of 10Read this excerpt from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein:I have good dispositions; my life had been hitherto harmless, and, in some degree, beneficial; but a fatal prejudice clouds [people's] eyes, and where they ought to see a feeling and kind friend, they behold only a detestable monster (176–177).Which theme is best conveyed by this quote?A.Misery loves company.B.Outward appearances can be deceiving.C.A word spoken in hate can injure more than the sword.D.People who hurt often hurt other people.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

…………………for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die.i. What was Ulysses’ purpose in life?