English 10: From Emperor To Citizen: P'u Yi

2 September 2022
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Which of the following conclusions about the speaker is best supported by the ideas information in "from Emperor to Citizen"?
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P'u Yi realizes that the splendor is reserved for his position and not for him.
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Which of the following text citations from "From Emperor to Citizen" best supports the answer selected above?
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"To show how they loved me and cared for me, the High Consorts also sent a responsible eunuch to report on how I had 'consumed viands.' This too was a formality."
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In "From Emperor to Citizen," which of the following words best identifies the speaker's attitude toward his childhood years?
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contemptuous
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Which of the following text citations from "From Emperor to Citizen" best supports the answer selected above?
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"Thus is was that with the connivance of the Republican authorities we continued our prodigious waste of the sweat and blood of the people in order to maintain our former pomp and continue our parasitic way of life."
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Indicate if the underlined words should be italicized or put in quotation marks. [The Gift of the Magi] is O. Henry's most famous short story.
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put in quotation marks
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Another strange thing that seemed quite normal at the time was the daily pomp.
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splendor
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The motley procession of several dozen people would proceed in perfect silence and order.
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varied