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Question 1
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Mark Twain is "first and last and all the time, so far as he is anything, a humorist and nothing more." So writes Harry Thurston Peck, a book critic and contemporary of Twain, in rejecting the possibility that Twain's darker works of fiction and non-fictive social commentary will maintain any lasting presence in the canon of American literature. Twain's early body of work is certainly a splendid monument to the nineteenth-century American sense of humor, and Peck cites "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," Roughing It, and The Innocents Abroad as examples of Twain's finest (meaning funniest) efforts. Similarly, as Peck points out, Twain built his reputation as a lecturer on his humorous descriptions of travels abroad and in the western territories.
Of course, a century of literary criticism has proven Peck's cavalier pigeonholing far too limiting. Even Peck himself lauds Twain's character Huckleberry Finn, whose strengths include an unfailing eye for hypocrisy and a deadly serious moral judgment, as a definitively American character who leaps real from the printed page. Twain certainly uses humor throughout all his works, but not as an end in itself. Twain's humor sweetens the sterner medicine that his unparalleled commentaries on life deliver.
Of course, a century of literary criticism has proven Peck's cavalier pigeonholing far too limiting. Even Peck himself lauds Twain's character Huckleberry Finn, whose strengths include an unfailing eye for hypocrisy and a deadly serious moral judgment, as a definitively American character who leaps real from the printed page. Twain certainly uses humor throughout all his works, but not as an end in itself. Twain's humor sweetens the sterner medicine that his unparalleled commentaries on life deliver.
1. The author mentions Huckleberry Finn in order to illustrate
A. Twain's reputation for writing humorous novels
B. Twain's skill in creating hypocritical characters
C. Peck's error in considering Twain to be a humorist at all
D. Peck's error in considering Twain nothing more than a humorist
E. Peck's insight into Twain's moral judgment
A. Twain's reputation for writing humorous novels
B. Twain's skill in creating hypocritical characters
C. Peck's error in considering Twain to be a humorist at all
D. Peck's error in considering Twain nothing more than a humorist
E. Peck's insight into Twain's moral judgment
2. The author of the passage is chiefly concerned with
A. demonstrating that Twain was not a humorist
B. arguing that Peck's judgment of Twain is too limited
C. documenting Peck's contribution to literary criticism
D. concluding that Twain was better as a serious writer than as a humorist
E. pointing out the importance of serious themes in good writing
A. demonstrating that Twain was not a humorist
B. arguing that Peck's judgment of Twain is too limited
C. documenting Peck's contribution to literary criticism
D. concluding that Twain was better as a serious writer than as a humorist
E. pointing out the importance of serious themes in good writing
Quote:
The passage presents Harry Thurston Peck's view that Mark Twain is solely a humorist, then argues this assessment is too narrow. It notes that literary criticism has since recognized Twain's deeper social commentary and moral seriousness, using Peck's own praise for Huckleberry Finn to illustrate that Twain's humor serves a more substantive purpose.
1. The author mentions Huckleberry Finn in order to illustrate
A. Twain's reputation for writing humorous novels
B. Twain's skill in creating hypocritical characters
C. Peck's error in considering Twain to be a humorist at all
D. Peck's error in considering Twain nothing more than a humorist
E. Peck's insight into Twain's moral judgment
The author cites Peck's own admiration for Huckleberry Finn, a character embodying moral seriousness, to show that even Peck acknowledged dimensions beyond mere humor, thus highlighting the limitation of Peck's "humorist and nothing more" claim.
Answer: D
2. The author of the passage is chiefly concerned with
A. demonstrating that Twain was not a humorist
B. arguing that Peck's judgment of Twain is too limited
C. documenting Peck's contribution to literary criticism
D. concluding that Twain was better as a serious writer than as a humorist
E. pointing out the importance of serious themes in good writing
The passage directly challenges Peck's reductive categorization, asserting that Twain's humor is a vehicle for serious commentary and that Peck's view has been proven too narrow by later criticism.
Answer: B
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