Le vor Novel. Mastery Test
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tist as a Young Man
Select the correct answer.
Which theme is common to the two excerpts?
OA. the absence of love
aded out like a film in the sun. He
ed out of existence for he no
o think of him passing out of
y death but by fading out in the
tten somewhere in the universel
body appear again for a
belted suit. His hands were in his
were tucked in at the knees by
OB. the fragile nature of existence
Oc. the question of reality
OD. disillusionment with the world
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Erself, walking towards Bond
st inevitably cease completely:
Sid she resent it; or did it not
t death ended absolutely? but
ondon, on the ebb and flow of
Peter survived, lived in each
sitive, of the trees at home; of
Il to bits and pieces as it was;
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This question seems to be incomplete. However, there is enough information to find the right answer.

B. the fragile nature of existence

Explanation:

The two excerpts are from "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", by James Joyce, and from "Mrs. Dalloway," by Virginia Woolf. Both share the common theme of the fragile nature of existence. Woolf describes a character that is wondering about her own existence, and its importance or the possibility of her life not being important, as "all this must go on without her." Both excerpts show ideas about the fragile nature of existence, not the absence of love, nor reality or disillusionment with the world.

faulty parallelism is a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are equivalent in meaning but not grammatically similar in form.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.

the problem is the last sentence, the first two have a basic subject+verb+object structure.

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in all three sentences:

the hikers knew that the hike was six miles, that it usually required the entire day, and it would not be wise to start after 10: 00 a.m.