PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A? A “We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.” ( Paragraph 1) B “It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope.” ( Paragraph 1) C “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.” ( Paragraph 4) D “Misunderstood! It is a right fool’s word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood?” ( Paragraph 5)

C “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind.” ( Paragraph 4)

Explanation:

The question refers to Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous essay "Self-Reliance".

The main idea in this essay could be regarded as the necessity not to fall into society's mold which will make bunch of people whose thoughts and views will be the same, as is expected of them. People shoud act upon their own free will, learn to think for themselves instead of blindly following others. All of these are features of non-conformists, as Emerson calls them.

The best supporting sentence to this idea would be answer C. It suggests that the real man must be non-conformist with a personal integrity and a head that thinks on its own.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

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