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Read the passage from Animal Farm."You have heard then, comrades," he said, "that we pigs now sleep in the beds of the farmhouse? And why not? You did not suppose, surely, that there was ever a ruling against beds? A bed merely means a place to sleep in. A pile of straw in a stall is a bed, properly regarded. The rule was against sheets, which are a human invention. We have removed the sheets from the farmhouse beds, and sleep between blankets. And very comfortable beds they are too! But not more comfortable than we need, I can tell you, comrades, with all the brainwork we have to do nowadays. You would not rob us of our repose, would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to carry out our duties? Surely none of you wishes to see Jones back?"The animals reassured him on this point immediately, and no more was said about the pigs sleeping in the farmhouse beds. And when, some days afterwards, it was announced that from now on the pigs would get up an hour later in the mornings than the other animals, no complaint was made about that either.Which statement supports the idea that this passage is an allegory for totalitarian propaganda?The animals agree that they do not wish to see Jones back.The animals want the pigs to sleep in the farmhouse beds.The animals support the pigs decision to sleep an extra hour.The animals do not complain about pigs in power breaking rul
Select the correct text in the passage.Which sentence in this excerpt from Patrick Henry's famous "liberty or death" speech at the Second Virginia Convention In 1775 emphasizes theAmerican colonists' efforts to avold war?Speech to the Second Virginia Conventionby Patrick Henry (excerpt)Let us not, I beseech you, sir, decelve ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. Wehave petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostratedourselves before the throne, and have implored ItsInterposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament.Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have producedadditional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of thethrone! In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconcillation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wishto be free-If we mean to preserve inviolate those Inestimable privileges for which we have SO been so long contending-If we mean not basely toabandon the noble struggle In which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until thegloriousobject of our contest shall be obtained-we must fighti I repeat It, sir, we mustigntl An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts Is all that is leftus!i