Read this passage from “harrison bergeron” by kurt vonnegut:
“if you could just take a few out when you came home from work,” said hazel. “i mean-you don’t compete with anybody around here. you just sit around.”
“if tried to get away with it,” said george, “then other people’d get away with it- and pretty soon we’d be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else. you wouldn’t like that, would you? ”
which statement best explains how irony is used in the passage?
a. george is unable to use his reasoning skills because the government handicapped him.
b. george prefers a society with limits rather than one that allows him to compete.
c. george refers to the year 2081 as the dark ages because people are unable to use their talents.
d. hazel tries to persuade her husband to break a strictly enforced law.

The answer is B. George prefers a society with limits rather than one that allows him to compete.

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the correct answer is the first option "the bolkshevik revolution". the passage makes reference to many of important events that occured in the revolution, such as the assemblies, in this case the animals are gathered in an assembly after a protest, the murder of fellow partners, the speeches given by the leader of the revolution, among other aspects. the last choice is possible, but in this passage in particular it is not emphasized the fight between the characters, that is the two pigs, that represent lenin and stallin.

which of the following was specifically permitted by the emancipation proclamation?

free african americans were allowed to fight for the confederacy.

free african americans were allowed to enlist in the union army and navy.

enslaved people in border states were allowed to move to the north.

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