Read the excerpt from act 2 of a doll's house. rank: [leaning towards her] nora—do you think he is the only one—? nora: [with a slight start] the only one—? rank: the only one who would gladly give his life for your sake. nora: [sadly] is that it? rank: i was determined you should know it before i went away, and there will never be a better opportunity than this. now you know it, nora. and now you know, too, that you can trust me as you would trust no one else. nora: [rises, deliberately and quietly] let me pass. rank: [makes room for her to pass him, but sits still] nora! nora: [at the hall door] helen, bring in the lamp. [goes over to the stove.] dear doctor rank, that was really horrid of you. rank: to have loved you as much as anyone else does? was that horrid? nora: no, but to go and tell me so. there was really no need— rank: what do you mean? did you know—? [maid enters with lamp, puts it down on the table, and goes out.] nora—mrs. helmer—tell me, had you any idea of this? nora: oh, how do i know whether i had or whether i hadn't? i really can't tell you—to think you could be so clumsy, doctor rank! we were getting on so nicely. rank: well, at all events you know now that you can command me, body and soul. so won't you speak out? nora: [looking at him] after what happened? rank: i beg you to let me know what it is. nora: i can't tell you anything now. rank: yes, yes. you mustn't punish me in that way. let me have permission to do for you whatever a man may do. nora: you can do nothing for me now. besides, i really don't need any at all. you will find that the whole thing is merely fancy on my part. it really is so—of course it is! [sits down in the rocking-chair, and looks at him with a smile.] you are a nice sort of man, doctor rank! don't you feel ashamed of yourself, now the lamp has come?

In another country by ernest hemingway (excerpts) excerpt 1 "in the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it any more. it was cold in the fall in milan and the dark came very early. then the electric lights came on, and it was pleasant along the streets looking in the windows. there was much game hanging outside the shops, and the snow powdered in the fur of the foxes and the wind blew their tails. the deer hung stiff and heavy and empty, and small birds blew in the wind and the wind turned their feathers. it was a cold fall and the wind came down from the mountains." excerpt 2 "the people hated us because we were officers, and from a wine-shop someone called out, "a basso gli ufficiali! " as we passed. another boy who walked with us sometimes and made us five wore a black silk handkerchief across his face because he had no nose then and his face was to be rebuilt. he had gone out to the front from the military academy and been wounded within an hour after he had gone into the front line for the first time. they rebuilt his face, but he came from a very old family and they could never get the nose exactly right. he went to south america and worked in a bank. but this was a long time ago, and then we did not any of us know how it was going to be afterward. we only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it any more." 19 select the correct answer. what important fact about the wounded soldiers is reflected by the repetition of the bolded sentences in the excerpts from "in another country" by ernest hemingway? a. it establishes the irony that, although the wounded soldiers have physically left the warfront, the war continues to haunt them psychologically. b. it shows the gradual loss of hope and growing depression of the wounded soldiers and their need for distractions. c. it establishes the wounded soldiers’ determination to shun war and disobey military commands to return to the front after they recover. d. it shows the wounded soldiers’ sadness and disappointment at the lack of gratitude from the people they risked their lives to protect. e. it shows the wounded soldiers’ belief that the war would never end, even as thousands of soldiers were killed or wounded and sent to hospitals. reset next