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The following text is from Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. The speaker is Mr. Lockwood, the new tenant of Mr. Heathcliff.I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist’s Heaven—and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow!Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?To demonstrate the remote atmosphere in which the story will take placeeliminateTo contrast Mr. Heathcliff with the landscape in which he resideseliminateTo describe Mr. Lockwood’s impressions of England as a wholeeliminateTo convey a conflict between the speaker and his landlord

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The following text is from Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. The speaker is Mr. Lockwood, the new tenant of Mr. Heathcliff.I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist’s Heaven—and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow!Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?To demonstrate the remote atmosphere in which the story will take placeeliminateTo contrast Mr. Heathcliff with the landscape in which he resideseliminateTo describe Mr. Lockwood’s impressions of England as a wholeeliminateTo convey a conflict between the speaker and his landlord

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The main purpose of the text is to demonstrate the remote atmosphere in which the story will take place.

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