2. What information about the setting of "Rashomon" gives you the most insight into its theme? A. The story is based on a Japanese folk tale from around 1000 C. E.
B. The story is set in Kyoto after a series of devastating natural disasters.
C. Rashomon Gate was the grandest of Kyoto's city gates at the time of the story.
D. Kimonos were prized articles of clothing in ancient Japan.

1. c- the tunnel project was worthwhile.

2. b- to inform about the value of the tunnel project

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it's a way for authors to communicate with reader in this time period. books from the past can teach us about life.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

absolutism the political belief that one ruler should hold all of the power within the boundaries of a country.