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| | A) | Robert Frost ends his short but lovely poem "Pasture" with an invitation to the reader: "You come too." |
| | B) | Robert Frost ends his short poem "Pasture" with an invitation to the reader: "You come too". |
| | C) | Robert Frost ends his short but lovely poem Pasture with an invitation to the reader: You come too. |
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| | A) | Both Night and Day and Stardust were recorded by Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in the early 1940s. |
| | B) | Both "Night and Day" and "Stardust" were recorded by Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in the early 1940s. |
| | C) | Both Night and Day and Stardust were recorded by Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in the early 1940s. |
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| | A) | Eudora Welty's short story "A Worn Path" touches the heart. |
| | B) | Eudora Welty's short story A Worn Path touches the heart. |
| | C) | Eudora Welty's short story 'A Worn Path' touches the heart. |
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| | A) | The opening line of Shakespeare's history play Richard III is Now is the winter of our discontent. |
| | B) | The opening line of Shakespeare's history play Richard III is "Now is the winter of our discontent." |
| | C) | The opening line of Shakespeare's history play Richard III is "Now is the winter of our discontent". |
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| | A) | My favourite episode from The Simpsons is 'Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy.' |
| | B) | My favourite episode from The Simpsons is "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy." |
| | C) | My favourite episode from The Simpsons is Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy. |
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| | A) | Consider the article entitled 'The Dead Sea Scrolls Come Alive' in Archaeology Today. |
| | B) | Consider the article entitled "The Dead Sea Scrolls Come Alive" in Archaeology Today. |
| | C) | Consider the article entitled The Dead Sea Scrolls Come Alive in Archaeology Today. |
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| | A) | I love solitude, wrote the Russian novelist Dostoyevsky. I am used to it, and use is second nature. |
| | B) | "I love solitude, wrote the Russian novelist Dostoyevsky. "I am used to it, and use is second nature." |
| | C) | "I love solitude," wrote the Russian novelist Dostoyevsky. "I am used to it, and use is second nature." |
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| | A) | "In every fat book," someone once said, "there is a thin book trying to get out." |
| | B) | "In every fat book," someone once said, "there is a thin book trying to get out". |
| | C) | "In every fat book", someone once said, "there is a thin book trying to get out." |
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| | A) | The man who doesn't read good books, said Mark Twain, "has no advantage over the man who can't read them." |
| | B) | "The man who doesn't read good books," said Mark Twain, "has no advantage over the man who can't read them." |
| | C) | "The man who doesn't read good books," said Mark Twain, "has no advantage over the man who can't read them". |
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| | A) | George Will once said, "Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country: president of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs." |
| | B) | George Will once said, "Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country: president of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs". |
| | C) | George Will once said, "Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country: president of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs. |
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| | A) | The president held up a newspaper bearing the headline "Dewey Defeats Truman." |
| | B) | The president held up a newspaper bearing the headline Dewey Defeats Truman. |
| | C) | The president held up a newspaper bearing the headline "Dewey Defeats Truman". |
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| | A) | On the first day of my Romantic Poetry class, the teacher stunned us by announcing, "I will now recite the most beautiful poem in the English language, 'Ode on a Grecian Urn,' by the English Romantic poet John Keats." |
| | B) | On the first day of my Romantic Poetry class, the teacher stunned us by announcing, I will now recite the most beautiful poem in the English language, Ode on a Grecian Urn, by the English Romantic poet John Keats. |
| | C) | One the first day of my Romantic Poetry class, the teacher stunned us by announcing, 'I will now recite the most beautiful poem in the English language, "Ode on a Grecian Urn," by the English Romantic poet John Keats.' |
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| | A) | "How can you write if you can't cry?" asked Ring Lardner. |
| | B) | "How can you write if you can't cry"? asked Ring Lardner. |
| | C) | How can you write if you can't cry? asked Ring Lardner. |
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| | A) | Mirror, Mirror is a "Star Trek" episode based on the theory of parallel universes. |
| | B) | "Mirror, Mirror" is a Star Trek episode based on the theory of parallel universes. |
| | C) | Mirror, Mirror is a StarTrek episode based on the theory of parallel universes. |
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| | A) | For her first critical paper, Jane compared Emily Dickinson's poem "I Like to See It Lap the Miles" with Walt Whitman's "To a Locomotive in Winter". |
| | B) | For her first critical paper, Jane compared Emily Dickinson's poem "I Like to See It Lap the Miles" with Walt Whitman's "To a Locomotive in Winter." |
| | C) | For her first critical paper, Jane compared Emily Dickinson's poem I Like to See It Lap the Miles with Walt Whitman's To a Locomotive in Winter. |
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| | A) | The story I read was Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," one of his best. |
| | B) | The story I read was Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown, one of his best. |
| | C) | The story I read was Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown", one of his best. |
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| | A) | I loved James Joyce's short story 'The Boarding House.' |
| | B) | I loved James Joyce's short story "The Boarding House". |
| | C) | I loved James Joyce's short story "The Boarding House." |
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| | A) | "I really don't know the answer," he said. "The problem is too complicated." |
| | B) | "I really don't know the answer," he said. "The problem is too complicated". |
| | C) | "I really don't know the answer", he said. "The problem is too complicated." |
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| | A) | "I wasn't sure what his response would be when I screamed, Bill, you don't know what you're talking about!" Annie said, "but by that time I really didn't care." |
| | B) | "I wasn't sure what his response would be when I screamed, 'Bill, you don't know what you're talking about!'" Annie said, "but by that time I really didn't care." |
| | C) | "I wasn't sure what his response would be when I screamed, 'Bill, you don't know what you're talking about'"! Annie said, "but by that time I really didn't care". |
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| | A) | He found Dolly Parton's song 'A Coat of Many Colors' quite moving. |
| | B) | He found Dolly Parton's song "A Coat of Many Colors" quite moving. |
| | C) | He found Dolly Parton's song A Coat of Many Colors quite moving. |
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