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in act, i, scene 5, the young scrooge’s beloved ends their relationship. she says, “have i not seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master—passion, gain, engrosses you? ”

from this dialogue, what can you conclude is her reason for rejecting him?
a. he is too interested in money.
b. she thinks they are too young to marry.
c. she believes he loves another woman.
d. he calls her a mindless loon.

which excerpt from the play best supports the correct answer to the previous question?

a. “our contract is an old one.’”
b. “there is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth! ”
c. “i was not another man: i was a boy.”
d. “your own feelings tell you that you were not what you are. i am. . promised happiness when we were one in heart . .”