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genesis, chapter 3 and paradise lost, book x
john milton

genesis 3: 12-13

and the man said, the woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and i did eat. and the lord god said unto the woman, what is this that thou hast done? and the woman said, the serpent beguiled me, and i did eat.

paradise lost, book x, 124-162

adam sore beset repli'd.
o heav'n! in evil strait this day i stand125
before my judge, either to undergoe
my self the total crime, or to accuse
my other self, the partner of my life;
whose failing, while her faith to me remaines,
i should conceal, and not expose to blame130
by my complaint; but strict necessitie
subdues me, and calamitous constraint
least on my head both sin and punishment,
however insupportable, be all
devolv'd; though should i hold my peace, yet thou135
wouldst easily detect what i conceale.
this woman whom thou mad'st to be my ,
and gav'st me as thy perfet gift, so good,
so fit, so acceptable, so divine,
that from her hand i could suspect no ill,140
and what she did, whatever in it self,
her doing seem'd to justifie the deed;
shee gave me of the tree, and i did eate.

to whom the sovran presence thus repli'd.
was shee thy god, that her thou didst obey145
before his voice, or was shee made thy guide,
superior, or but equal, that to her
thou did'st resigne thy manhood, and the place
wherein god set thee above her made of thee,
and for thee, whose perfection farr excell'd150
hers in all real dignitie: adornd
she was indeed, and lovely to attract
thy love, not thy subjection, and her gifts
were such as under government well seem'd,
unseemly to beare rule, which was thy part155
and person, hadst thou known thy self aright.

so having said, he thus to eve in few:
say woman, what is this which thou hast done?

to whom sad eve with shame nigh overwhelm'd,
confessing soon, yet not before her judge160
bold or loquacious, thus abasht repli'd.
the serpent me beguil'd and i did eate.

journalism in tennessee—[written about 1871.] by mark twain i was told by the physician that a southern climate would improve my health, and so i went down to tennessee, and got a berth on the morning glory and johnson county war-whoop as associate editor. when i went on duty i found the chief editor sitting tilted back in a three-legged chair with his feet on a pine table. there was another pine table in the room and another afflicted chair, and both were half buried under newspapers and scraps and sheets of manuscript. there was a wooden box of sand, sprinkled with cigar stubs and "old soldiers," and a stove with a door hanging by its upper hinge. the chief editor had a long-tailed black cloth frock-coat on, and white linen pants. his boots were small and neatly blacked. he wore a ruffled shirt, a large seal-ring, a standing collar of obsolete pattern, and a checkered neckerchief with the ends hanging down. date of costume about 1848. he was smoking a cigar, and trying to think of a word, and in pawing his hair he had rumpled his locks a good deal. he was scowling fearfully, and i judged that he was concocting a particularly knotty editorial. he told me to take the exchanges and skim through them and write up the "spirit of the tennessee press," condensing into the article all of their contents that seemed of interest.

what does the author suggest about the south, where the story is set, by his choice of details about the setting?

question 5 options:

a. that the south is progressive and forward looking

b. that the south is behind the times and unrefined

c. that the south is violent and angry about the civil war

d. the setting and the details do not suggest anything about the south.