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One central idea of morris’s essay is that getting rid of things can be a relief for people. which two of these details illustrate that idea?

choose one answer from each group. type the letter only for each answer in the correct blank.

type a, b, c, or d for blank 1.

a. their houses are filled with an undigested mass of things, like the terminal moraine where a glacier dumps at length everything it has picked up during its progress through the lands.
b. truly, on all sides we are beset, and we go lumbering along through life like a ship encrusted with barnacles.
c. such things as we cannot give away, and have not the courage to destroy, we stack in the garret.
d. then, as we breathe more freely in the clear space that we have made for ourselves, we grow aware that we must not relax our vigilance.

type e, f, g, or h for blank 2.
e. the host must receive gifts from every little guest, and provide in return some little remembrance for each to take home.
f. we cannot go to luncheon and meet our friends but we must receive a token to carry away.
g. and to think that there was a time when folk had not even that hope!
h. to think one could not even then be clear of things, and make at least a fresh start! that must, indeed, have been in the childhood of the race.

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